On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 15 Nov 2009 10:52:05 am Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> $ wget -b -c http://spam-cheetah.com/SpamCheetah-trial-18.iso.7z >> >> will go to background and keep resuming from a previous download. >> > does not wget by default resume 20 times before giving up? the -c is to > manually resume after wget gives up - otherwise a manual restart will start > from the beginning.
You must be right. The problem with wget is that it does not overwrite existing files. So I normally get into trouble when I get a file under /tmp when the file is already there. It writes a new version with the .1 suffix, if that is found, it writes with a .2 suffix and so on. The main reason I download from the Internet is to overwrite the old version with the new version. But wget get it contrariwise. ;) The -c switch avoids that problem. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
