Resume a broken download from Wget
Well today I ran into a problem that I have had on many occasions, this is a problem that I´m sure a large number of you have run into, what´s the problem, well my internet connection dropped out on me. This normally isn´t a problem however I was 90% of the way through a 5 gig download. As you can imagine I was slightly annoyed, however this time I was using Wget, Wget as you may or may not know is a utility that allows you to download files from http or ftp sites. Wget offers a very simple solution to this problem is to resume the download from where it stopped, I know there are other apps that let you do this but I was on a command line and many of the other apps are not as reliable.
So to the purpose of this brief post...
To resume a download that has stopped in Wget you simply have to put a -c in the command,
For example this command to download a copy of Ubuntu
wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/intrepid/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
would turn into
wget -c http://releases.ubuntu.com/intrepid/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
It´s that simple.
Hope this helps anyone that was in the same position as I was.
As always any comments are welcome.
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NOTE: These articles are tutorials/general ramblings. I do not except responsibility for anything that goes wrong, be it a broken HDD, an entire computer or if you chop off your arms, follow anything I say on this site at your own risk.
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