On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 12:06, <c...@free.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > acording to > $wget --help > i should send reports and suggestions to this address, so i hope i'm doing > right here. > > the version of my distribution, given by the above command, is "GNU Wget > 1.18" > > and i don't seem to see an option to limit the retrieval to a certain > amount of data or a range. > is it possible? > > thanks in advance and happy new year, > > Zui > 201901233 >
Wget has an option "--start-pos ZERO-based-offset". I use "head -c N" for limiting the download size [1]. [1] mget for downloading pieces of remote file in parallel, https://github.com/yousong/dconf/blob/master/data/_usr.env/bin/mget#L43 yousong