Download a directory by wget in UNIX

Download entire directory from Nexus by wget command:

 wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=6 --no-parent --reject="index.html*"  --user=<USER> --ask-password  http://<host>:<port>/nexus/content/repositories/Test-Releases/com/edu/test/

For e.g.  In Nexus there is a folder test and inside that there are different folders with version number.

/test/1.0
/test/1.1

Below are arguments of wget commands.

-r  : Recursive
-nH : Ignore the hostname. If this parameter is not passed then it will create the folder with name of nexus host and port

--cut-dirs : Ignore the number of directories post Nexus host and port. If 5 is passed in this case then in local directories will be like edu/test/*

--reject="index.html*" : Download the actual content but not the index.html

--ask-password  : It will ask for password after running command