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# Make a new "wget" directory in your student Home directory and change into it
mkdir -p ~/wget; cd ~/wget

# download a Gencode statistics file using default output file naming
wget "https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/gencode/_README_stats.txt"
wc -l _README_stats.txt

# if you execute the same wget again, and the output file already exists
# wget will create a new one with a numeric extension
wget "https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/gencode/_README_stats.txt"
wc -l _README_stats.txt.1

# download the same Gencode statistics file to a different local filename
wget -O gencode_stats.txt "https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/gencode/_README_stats.txt"
wc -l gencode_stats.txt