How to wget download multiple links in the background

First, create a text file (eg links.txt
) containing all links you want to download. For example
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20210820/enwiki-20210820-geo_tags.sql.gz
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20210820/enwiki-20210820-page_props.sql.gz
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20210820/enwiki-20210820-page.sql.gz
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20210820/enwiki-20210820-category.sql.gz
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20210820/enwiki-20210820-categorylinks.sql.gz
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20210820/enwiki-20210820-site_stats.sql.gz
Download all the above in background:
wget -b -i links.txt
To log download progress:
tail wget-log