Saving a text file from web to local from Linux command line

Saving a text file from web to local from Linux command line I have several text files I'm wanting to grab from a web server at school and save them to my my local using a command line interface. This is not a homework problem, just me trying to do something tedious in an efficient way. So I have two things I'm trying to do:
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"wget is a good tool, and can recursively grab files from a webserver.

wget -r 'http://url/'"

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"A simple way to download webpage recursively.

wget -r -p -k -c -np URL

say if you want to omit zip, tar.gz and rar files

wget -r -p -k -c -np -R zip,gz,rar URL

or you could use httrack, which has GUI (native and web) for configuration (like filter rules)."