Re: Wget difference

2013-05-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Forgot to mention, once wc -l wget-log or wc -l wget-log.x is issued, hitting up arrow followed by enter gets you further line counts of wget-log for monitoring progress of file download. On Thu, 2 May 2013, francis picabia wrote: > I often download packages to servers using wget and the "Direc

Re: Wget difference

2013-05-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
I suspect wget debian version has some kind of problem it doesn't happen on slackware current either. Also, you may find using wget with the -b switch makes life better. When wget-log or wget-log.x is created after issuing that command with the url after the -b, you can monitor growth of the

Re: Wget difference

2013-05-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-02 15:34 +0200, francis picabia wrote: > I often download packages to servers using wget and the "Direct Link" > feature on the sourceforge projects. > > For example, today, I downloaded scamp: > > $ wget > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scamp/scamp/scamp-5.6/scamp-5.6.tar.gz?

Wget difference

2013-05-02 Thread francis picabia
I often download packages to servers using wget and the "Direct Link" feature on the sourceforge projects. For example, today, I downloaded scamp: $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scamp/scamp/scamp-5.6/scamp-5.6.tar.gz?r=&ts=1367500908&use_mirror=superb-dca3 On Redhat, this produc