Hello everyone, I'm trying to cut down on unnecessary downloading in some scripts I have, and in most cases it will actually suffice to download a chunk of files, for ex the first 5MB. I've looked thru all the wget options and the only remotely useful option I found was -Q quota (--quota=quota):
Specify download quota for automatic retrievals. The value can be specified in bytes (default), kilobytes (with k suffix), or megabytes (with m suffix). Note that quota will never affect downloading a single file. So if you specify wget -Q10k ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/ls-lR.gz, all of the ls-lR.gz will be downloaded. The same goes even when several URLs are specified on the command-line. However, quota is respected when retrieving either recursively, or from an input file. Thus you may safely type wget -Q2m -i sites---download will be aborted when the quota is exceeded. Unfortunately, that option doesn't do what I thought it would (it doesn't work on single files). Googling the problem didn't seem to produce any helpful results. Can anyone help? I've also posted this question at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2601450 without much luck. Thank you in advance. Sincerely, Archon810.
