Hi All, first of all, keep in mind that rsync already handle local (and remote) file/dir transfer at best, IMHO rsync is the best solution, ever, for coping files when you have shell access to. You can have a look at here: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html
just look at the details of what the --progress and --partial does. Saying that, wget should never be used as a rsync clone, but, a raw file:// protocol may still be useful. Think that wget is used by a small program to collect some file; those file can stay on web or be local, should the program call different tool, wget for the net, and cp/rcp/rsync for local stored file? if wget can handle both, there is no need for that. Hope this will help, Antonio.
