tomasz86 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) I'm looking for the smallest version of wget for Windows. I've managed to find this one: ftp://78.139.97.87/Antivir/drweb/drweb_livecd_updater/UTILITY/wget.exe (66.5KB) Virustotal for the file is 19/42: https://www.virustotal.com/pl/file/e0f932063d19d093a9aa5da6bc8417147326f42344dfa42cab131928f9e9e4f4/analysis/ so download it at your own risk. The file does work nevertheless. I'm just wondering whether there's any "safe" version of wget that is smaller or similar in size to this one. What I need is to be able to download a file using the -N switch (i.e. time stamp checking). Edited January 17, 2014 by tomasz86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 HOW small? Google"wget.exe" intitle:index.of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 It is not about "clean" (or "safe") vs. "dirty" (or dangerous, most current antivirus will (senselessly) tag as "malicious" *any* UPX packed file (like the one you posted a link to).That file is actually 162,816 bytes in size once unUPXed, still a smallish one , but not as much as a miracle as it seemed before (current minGW compiled Wget.exe is 194,048 bytes)jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 Thanks for the clues I've managed to find this one: ftp://84.237.21.34/public/prosovetsky/wget.exe (116KB) VirusTotal 0/46 After using UPX with --ultra-brute the size gets shrunken to 49.5KB (VirusTotal 4/48) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Good .As the usual disclaimer, using UPX is something to be thought upon as while it actually shrinks filesize it usually increases the amount of RAM needed to run it.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) Good to know!I've just compared the two. The uncompressed version uses 768KB RAM while the compressed one uses 868KB. In this case I think it's worth to compress the file. Edited January 17, 2014 by tomasz86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bphlpt Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Which version of wget is that? Just curious.Cheers and Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 Which version of wget is that? Just curious. I don't know There's no version number defined. The time stamp says 2001.01.19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Did you try:wget --helpat the command prompt?Mine (from 2009.04.25) replies:GNUWget 1.11.4, a non-interactive network retriever....followed by several lines of help.wget -Valso gives the version, followed by just a handful of credit lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 It's Wget 1.6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DosProbie Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 (edited) Just use the wget switch for version like so..DP Output on first line ==> GNU Wget 1.6My version is 2008 ==> GNU Wget 1.11.4@echo offwget --versionpause Edited January 18, 2014 by DosProbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) I've managed to find Wget 1.5.3.1 and even 1.4.5 but both of the two files are larger than 1.6.If anyone's interested:http://web.archive.org/web/19990429173903/http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/mirror/wget.htm Edited January 19, 2014 by tomasz86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bphlpt Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I guess I prefer to use the latest version I can find. Mine is the same as dencorso, 1.11.4. What is the reason for your focus on file size as your primary decision factor?For ease of use, I have also successfully used wGetGUI along with wGet, but sometimes nothing beats using wGet directly through command line.Cheers and Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I guess I prefer to use the latest version I can find. Mine is the same as dencorso, 1.11.4. What is the reason for your focus on file size as your primary decision factor?For ease of use, I have also successfully used wGetGUI along with wGet, but sometimes nothing beats using wGet directly through command line.Cheers and RegardsWell, if you are going for the latest, then get the latest (or make a build yourself from the latest source).1.11.4 is something like 2008, wget is at 1.15 now (dated TODAY), but there is a pre-made MInGW1.14 Win32 build here: https://code.google.com/p/osspack32/downloads/detail?name=wget-1.14.exe&can=2&q=jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bphlpt Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I guess I prefer to use the latest version I can find. Mine is the same as dencorso, 1.11.4. What is the reason for your focus on file size as your primary decision factor? Well, if you are going for the latest, then get the latest (or make a build yourself from the latest source).1.11.4 is something like 2008, wget is at 1.15 now (dated TODAY), but there is a pre-made MInGW1.14 Win32 build here: https://code.google.com/p/osspack32/downloads/detail?name=wget-1.14.exe&can=2&q=Yes I was looking for one that was a Windows binary. Thanks for the 1.14. I hadn't looked for a while, but I don't know how I missed that one. Cheers and Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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