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How can I resume a download with wget?

I use wget with Flashgot in Firefox to download. I can't resume download if i pause(by ctrl+c). Because, i don't know the commandline arguments of wget to manually add it in a terminal. So i did ...
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how to resume download in wget which is integrated with firefox via flashgot

I use wget as a downloader. It is an excellent, outstanding application. I integrated it with Firefox using Flashgot. How can I resume a download which was stopped by a CTRL+C key press or a shutdown ...
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How to download specific images from a site index with wget?

Let's suppose that I have access to a site index and in a specific directory of this index I have a lot of images, but some of those images were resized (the original still there). The resized images ...
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download file from web source, selectively

If anyone has heard of Bukkit, you know that their files are usually of three types: Development, Beta, and Realease. Click (here) for examples. I need a script that: Loops through the directory ...
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How to make wget faster or multithreading?

I've just upgraded my computer hardware(cpu + motherboard + graphic card + memory + hard disk), so that install a new OS is needed. I tried to download debian-6.0.6-amd64-netinst.iso with wget command ...
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How to change wget default directory from 'Videos' to 'Downolads'?

I use the combination of Flashgot and wget for downloads. I reset my Firefox preferences due to some other problems. Then I reconfigured everything (including add-ons, cache, etc). After that, when ...
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Ubuntu download with wget and parameters

I tied to download a .torrent file via wget but it don't work. I tried it with wget "http://abc/?page=download&tid=348168" -o test.torrent and also wget ...
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241 views

wget fails to download an image [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: wget downloads corrupt JPEG file I'm trying to do a script so I can set this image as background and update it each 10 minutes, but I can not even download the image: $ ...
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How can I download from 4shared.com via terminal? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I use wget/curl to download from a site I am logged into? I want to ask if I can download from 4shared.om via terminal? I tried to use wget ...
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aget vs axel vs aria2 [closed]

I'm looking for a multi-threaded (fast) alternative to wget which can download large files. The choices seem to be aget, axel and aria2. I'm familiar with axel (thanks to apt-fast). Which is the best ...
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Problem using wget to download an entire website

As said in wget man page: to download a single page and all its requisites (even if they exist on separate websites), and make sure the lot displays properly locally, this author likes to use a ...
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Download jdk 1.6 using wget

I'm trying to get JDK 1.6 using the following command: wget 'http://download.oracle.com/otn/java/jdk/6u14-b08/jdk-6u14-linux-x64.bin' The download fails and I suspect it's related to the fact that ...
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Can I use 'axel' or 'aria2' to continue an interrupted 'wget' download?

I was downloading a big file with wget, but the speed was very slow. How can I continue downloading this file with axel or aria2?
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Download only latest file with wget

I want to wget (or other download batch command) the latest file that is added to a large repository. The latest nightly build thru http. I could mirror all files, but the repository are huge so I ...
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324 views

using wget to download pictures results in junk files

commands: mkdir -p sun-yat-sen && wget --directory-prefix=sun-yat-sen -r -nd -np -A.jpg -erobots=off http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen_University There are several pics on the ...
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Wget server issues or the command is wrong?

I have a file on my server that is changing constantly, it changes hourly, sometimes it changes every minute. The file is is growing, but not so fast. This file is generated inside a dir called ...
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How do I provide a username and password to wget?

I've tried to connect to a server via wget: wget http://<user>:<pass>@serveradress But wget responds: invalid port I know that the server accepts incoming traffic at port 80. How can I ...
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How to download a whole FTP site using command line?

I need to download an FTP site (a web site source code actually) containing a very high quantity of relatively small files (downloading it with FileZilla took more than a day, but I believe it could ...