begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:57:16PM -0700: > Way back when I was running whendoze (around 10 years ago), I had a > shareware program called File Hound. One of the many features that I > liked about that program is that if I had it running while browsing the > internet, and I right click on something and choose "copy link > location", File Hound would take it from there and fetch the object of > that link, in the background, while I continued surfing. It even cached > subsequent links and got to them as soon as it could. > > I've been trying to think of how I might be able to do something like > that in linux. wget is just as tenacious as File Hound for files whose > download keeps breaking. I think there's a way to tell wget not to > bother fetching duplicates. What I'm not sure about is how to get wget > to run like a daemon, and listen for copied links. Any ideas? >
while [ true ] ; do echo -n "url: " read url wget -b -c -nc --random-wait "$url" done -- It's an idea. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
