On 02-Nov-98 Kelvin Teh wrote:
>
> I have used Linux for slightly less than a month now and am absolutely
> loving it...but there are still some transition pains as to the apps that I
> use. To reduce the transition pains I am trying to look for s/w
> (prefereably free) that will do the tasks I accomplished under Win. I have
> searched the web and have found some sites that list s/w but there are a
> lot to try....I wonder if anyone can recommend a download manager for my
> purpose....
> I have an ISP a/c that charges by the connection time so I cannot afford to
> leave the connection up the whole day....I am looking for something that
> will accept urls to the download site and connect up to the internet and
> download from the list of urls specified and (most importantly)
> automatically disconnect from the ISP when the downlaods are done. I have
> lost too much sleep staring at progress bars through the night to convince
> me that I need a downlaod manager in lInux.
Well, I have never used such software before, but I'm pretty sure they exist.
However, thanks to the power and flexibility of bash, there really isn't any
need for such software. You can use lynx to perform the download in the
following manner:
Command line...
ccorner:~$ ppp-on ;\
> lynx -source http://dat.org/index.html > index.html ;\
> lynx -source http://dat.org/bigfile.tar.gz > bigfile.tar.gz ;\
> ppp-off
...or in a script
ppp-on
lynx -source http://dat.org/index.html > index.html
lynx -source http://dat.org/bigfile.tar.gz > bigfile.tar.gz
ppp-off
The only problem is that lynx insist on sending it's output to standard out,
which may be a little inconvenient. This can be solved by using a download
utility like got_it (available at http://roger.samond.ru/).
If you prefer a graphical interface, you can try running the following script
with the command "rxvt -e scriptname". It requires the program "got_it" and
"joe", but can be adapted to work with other programs as well.
#!/bin/bash
ppp-on
got_it -p=proxy.cyberway.com.sg -n8080 -l- $(echo -n |joe -)
ppp-off
echo All done!
read
You may have a little problem replacing "joe" with another editor as most
editors cannot write to standard out.
Cort
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