Does WGet have a "pause" functionality where you can pause a current download ? Will the file currently being downloaded be corrupted if I kill WGet and spawn another one after a few minutes asking it to resume from where it was forced to stop last time ?
An accompanying (shell) script would be nice for illustratory purposes, though it need not be syntactically correct ;) Should just highlight the basics - and note that it should be as much automated as possible. (Or for that matter you can submit pseudocode, or just details in plain ol' english !) If you feel like piping to 'sed' to check server headers for 'Range' - use it by all means in the script, but show it please. Basically, I need to do automated downloads of HUGE (>=100MB) files using WGet where human interaction will be minimal - every 48 hours or so at the least! So WGet asking the user incase of problems etc is not a very good idea ! It should be as much automated as possible. Currently, I am using the following: ./wget --output-file=test_txt --append-output=test_txt --tries=20 --continue --header="From: SuSI<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" http://www.mosfet.com/downloads/something But as you know, WGet will just REFUSE to d/l files in 'continue' mode if the server does not support resuming. (For example, http://www.mosfet.com maybe load balanced to 3 - 4 servers, and one of them may/may not support resuming. So everytime I stop/start/resume a d/l, I have to chcek afresh if the server starts resuming, as I may get connected to a different server now - say one which does NOT support resuming..) I am allowed to use WGet 1.9.1 on a 512KBps DSL line with a 128KBPs satellite link fallback incase of problems - so you may take these parameters if you can optmize I/O. Regards Subhobroto Sinha http://www.geocities.com/subhobrotosinha __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
