wget: A good download manager?

[Matthew Carpenter]

wget is an awesome tool for most downloading needs, but I'd probably not call it a "Manager" since I can't think of a commandline tool that I would consider that title appropriate for.  However, wget is an amazing tool for a couple different situations:

anonymous ftp: where the site is full most of the time.  wget allows you to set a retry count (-t) which will continue to try a given URL.

Recovery: Using the -c option allows you to recover from failed downloads.

Mirroring: wget has special options specifically for mirroring other sites.

Recursion: wget, being very good at mirroring, has many recursion options (downloading directory structures, not just files).

HTTP and FTP support.



begin  Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com>
(Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:03:17 -0500)

> Just a question for my own information.
> 
> wget in "info wget" claims to be a good download manager. That is to say,
> it can restart the download if the connection is lost. Does someone have
> experience who can verify this?
> 
> And, if you have experience with wget, do you have any experiences with
> wget which might be useful to share with someone just starting to use it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joel
> 
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