How to force re-download a file using wget? Commands, Internet Add comments Jan 182010 How to force re-download a file using wget? Answer: Use the -nc flag, e.g. # wget -nc ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/ls-lR.Z Related posts: How to resume a partially-downloaded file using wget Download a complete directory on FTP server with wget wget with rate limiting Mirror a web site using wget Print the web site’s content using wget Leave a Reply Cancel reply Name (required) E-mail (required) URI Your Comment You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>