Right on.
By the way, just to clarify, when I say that I prefer wget, I meant that
in the context of downloading a large file from a remote computer via a
slow/unstable link -- not a LAN transfer. Sorry, made that assumption
on my own :P
Anyway, yeah, for a LAN or stable/fast link transfer, I also suggest
scp. Even on a bad link, scp is still a decent choice.
I prefer the wget/http method because of the easy
automatic-retry/transfer/broken-download resume when the link/connection
dies mid-download.
-Kyle
[email protected] wrote:
scp is the best option but if you insist on wget, try this if you have ftp
access to that machine
wget -r --level=0 -E --ignore-length -x -k -p -erobots=off -np -N
ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/<folder/file>
The breakdown? info wget
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:56:24PM +0300, Kyle Spencer wrote:
Roy,
Try scp. For info, type "man scp"
See also: ftp, apache (place the file in /var/www/ on the remote machine
then wget -cb from your local machine), rsync, etc.
I prefer the apache/wget -cb method, especially for large files.
-Kyle
roy mukasa wrote:
guys i need some help here. ok i use this command to start a download
onto a linux machine remotely so the download runs in the background.
it also shows me the file it creates for the download files. now the
problem i have is that i need the command that will enable me to get
the downloaded files off the machine on which the download was taking
place. i want to do it in command line. any ideas?
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