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The ability to summarize downloads is essential, especially in countries where internet access is not stable enough or even where electrical current is not. Suppose we start downloading a file and all of a sudden, boom, we run out of internet. After a while everything returns to normal and we can resume the download.
Both Firefox and Chrome / Chromium have this functionality built in and there are even several extensions available that improve them substantially. However, ridiculous as it may sound, there are cases where this method fails, while wget, a simple tool without a graphical interface, has never failed me. |
To make it possible to summarize a download, make sure to always use the -c parameter. That way, wget won't delete the downloaded part of the file when trying to resume the download.
Suppose, then, that we start to download a file:
wget -c http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/iso/latest/archlinux-2010.05-core-i686.iso
Boom! The power goes out. After a while the internet returns. And we run again:
wget -c http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/iso/latest/archlinux-2010.05-core-i686.iso
And the result is something like this:
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«You are a degenerate waster of resources» ... heh heh heh ... just kidding ...
You cannot deny the elegance and simplicity of a command line that does the same as hundreds of lines of code and consumes system resources and time to activate and download a simple file with Jdownloader.
JDownloader is very powerful to download many chunks of a file shared on rapidshared, for example.
Downloading a simple file is killing a simple fly with a bomb ... hehehe
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Interesting trick, although summarizing sounds very bad to me. I do not know if in other latitudes it will be valid, but it seems to me that it is an Anglicism (to summarize) that should be translated by resuming.
interesting the trick although I keep something graphical interface
with jdownloader
great. At one time I used screen and ntorrent to manage an nslug that I had as a download manager. You should try it. 🙂
It probably comes from an Anglicism… anyway, it is used a lot here. 🙁
Cheers! Paul.
VERY useful friend, Thank you very much for the contribution!
I will try it! Thank you!
Cheers! Paul.
hehehe nothing better than the classic console ... I happened to think of writing something about wget but I thought it would be very kid ... it's good to distribute knowledge.
wget can download links that jdownloader is not capable of
The truth is that it is a good trick! worse from what I have tried you can make the wget without the -cy parameter if the power goes out (or the connection is cut or whatever) you put the wget again with the -cy it continues where it left off. That is, it is not necessary to always put the -c but if it is cut it is put to make a resume or re-union without having to remember to put it the first time.
Thank you, I have been able to download some great videos where it was the first time.
ps: there is nothing better than the console to have total control of what is happening and also, know how to do things in a way that can be automated when you decide with a script-