rsync is what we are moving away from because, it doesn't have what is needed. (Can't go into details sorry) I'm not trying to sync. I'm trying to download specific pieces of data or other products. wget and curl both work but I'm tasked with finding out which one other developers/users prefer.
James On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:51:26 +1000 Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > > > All, > > To do something we need internally (maybe later externally > > I don't know) we need to use either wget or curl. The > > question is what are the advantages of each? I notice that > > urpmi defaults to curl, and usually Mandrake has a viable > > justification for what it does,(that I trust) so perhaps > > someone could tell be just what is the advantage of one > > over the other? > > > > James > > Seriously, you should use rsync. One user states that "rsync > is everything that ftp (ie curl, wget, etc) ought to have been". > > It is also much faster downloading a new version with unchanged > name by using a special incremental download and update-in-place > technique that none of the ftp or html downloaders have. > > See "man rsync". > > -- > Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] > > Web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/ > > > > > > >
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