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chrisstankevitz
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 Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject: How do cool linux people download things? |
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I have two questions:
1. How do cool people download things? For example:
| Code: | | $ download http://www.whatever.com/bigfile.tar.gz |
2. Where should I go to ask such "how cool linux people do things" questions? |
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tdennist
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Cool people use wget. Or at least, that's what I use......and I'm cool.......right?
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burzmali
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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wget http://your.url.here/myfile.tar.gz
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| Quote: | | 2. Where should I go to ask such "how cool linux people do things" questions? |
you can ask here. or better yet, search!
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sapphirecat
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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Download: wget 'url'
Resume download: wget -c 'url'
There's also plenty of info about doing passive FTP, proxying, and so on in the man page 
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EliasP
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Really cool Linux people download files by sniffing their own network traffic on hardware basis and grepping out what they need.. *gg*
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John5788
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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super uber leet cool linux people do this
| Code: | | perl -e 'use LWP::Simple; getstore("http://www.porno.com/video1.mpg", "video1.mpg");' |
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DarrenM
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 1:29 am Post subject: |
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Right click link in konqueror, then select directory under the "Copy To" bit.
Maybe it's not cool but who can be arsed opening up a term and typing in crap when you can do it with 2 clicks
Supports resume too. |
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andrewy
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:03 am Post subject: |
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| Super cool geeks download stuff using netcat. |
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PseudoKrazy
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| DarrenM wrote: | Right click link in konqueror, then select directory under the "Copy To" bit.
Maybe it's not cool but who can be arsed opening up a term and typing in crap when you can do it with 2 clicks
Supports resume too. |
Hell yeah. I only use wget when someone gives me a specific url to a file they want to give me. Faster then opening mozilla in some cases i guess. |
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Regor
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curl 
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softchill
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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Super duper cool people (not Linux specific)
use lynx to browse/download, press d
on a link to download. Now you can
see who is a good web designer!
Of course ncftp is a must. I need it
for all of my ftp sessions. When I want
to see a picture of course I use firefox
and of course I use the great plugin that let you
choose your apps like ncftp when you
click on a ftp:// link.
If that does not sound cool to you...
I dont mind.
Cause it's cool to me so you should do
the same.(find what's cool to you!!!)
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amne
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject: Re: How do cool linux people download things? |
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| chrisstankevitz wrote: |
2. Where should I go to ask such "how cool linux people do things" questions? |
Cool people don't ask questions like this, they just know. If you ask them how they got there, they are too cool to give you an answer. 
Apart from that: wget is fine and forums.gentoo.org a good place to ask and search for solutions to any kind of problem.  |
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