I suppose you can sometimes do `mget x.csv` on FTP (if the client supports it?), but with wget you can do: wget -r -A 'x.csv' https://example.org/ https://exam

I suppose you can sometimes do `mget x.csv` on FTP (if the client supports it?), but with wget you can do: wget -r -A 'x.csv' https://example.org/ https://example.org/ (where 'x' is an asterisk, but HN's formatting eats it) More work, in the sense that it's more command line options to remember, I agree, but otherwise it's easier to integrate in scripts and much more flexible than mget. (I don't miss FTP for the sysadmin side of maintaining those servers.)