The wget utility recently came up in a JavaRanch topic and I recalled that this very useful utility doesn't come natively installed on Mac OS X, even if you install the Developer Tools.

I also recalled that it took me less than 10 minutes to download the sources and build it.

Figuring that I should probably rebuild the latest and greatest, here are the steps I took to build wget 1.9 on Mac OS X 10.3.8 with the Developer Tools installed:

1. Get the source from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.9.tar.gz
2. Unpack the tarball: tar xzf wget-1.9.tar.gz
3. This creates a folder named wget-1.9. Change the working folder to it: cd wget-1.9/
4. Configure the build: ./configure
5. Build: make
6. Install: sudo make install
7. The wget binary should now be in your /usr/local/bin folder.