md5sums

[Tom Wilson]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 21:40, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> > Would you post, or send, the scripts?  They sound useful in and of 
> > themselves, but I am working on trying to do something that wget sounds 
> > good for and sample code is always the best place to start.
> 
> Actually there is only one I use nowadays. I call it 'wget.sh':
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # A simple script to automate getting a list of files from various servers
> 
> # Create the list file (edit after the 'cat' line and before the EOF line)
> cat > "wget.list" <<EOF
> ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/testing/ProMEPIS-2005.b02.iso.md5sum
> ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/testing/ProMEPIS-2005.b02.iso
> EOF
> 
> wget    --background \
>      --append-output=wget.log \
>      --continue \
>      --tries=0 \
>      --wait=30 \
>      --limit-rate=30k \
>      --input-file=wget.list
> 
> # End
> 
> Use your browser and navigate to the download point for the files you want. 
> Use the "copy link location" option in your browser and paste the result in 
> place of the ftp lines above. Then run './wget.sh' and go do something productive.
> 
> Note this runs in the background so you can even log off while it eats. I 
> always include a line to get the MD5SUM file as well. Set the 'limit-rate' to 
> however mad you are at your ISP. If you want to observe progress, just do 
> 'tail -f wget.log'.
> 
> Works like industrial strength magic. And thanks to either David Bandel or 
> Douglas Hunley that I got this idea from originally. (One of the 'D' boys.)
> 
> Michael

Thanks for the script Michael.  I am going to give them a try now.  

Tom Wilson 
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