Scheduling downloads

[Georgina Joyce]

Hi

How would this script look?

#!bin/sh
# schedule download of dvd
if[ date %T = 00:01:00 ]; then
wget -c ftp.<some-server>/<some-dvd.iso>
fi

I can't see how to tell wget to put the download in a specified directory as I guess that it would put it in /etc/cron.daily/.  I wondered if the above is anywhere like what I need?

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:43:01AM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:23:41AM EST, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > My ISP requests that I schedule downloads during off peak hours and as I'm looking at downloading a DVD image, I'm wondering how I can start my download.
> > 
> > Of course I could wait until midnight and start the download but I wondered if there was a more automated way.  Even to stop at 08:00 and resume the following midnight.  I know that I could use cron but I would need to specify a time and the download location, which seems a little scary.  I'd usually use lftp but maybe another client might offer a solution?  Just thought, might wget do the job?  Any suggestions anyone?
> 
> This is something that is easily scriptable. You could write one script 
> to start the download, and then have another script to find out the 
> process ID of the currently running script for the download, and kill 
> it. Wget is good, but make sure you use the command-line flag to resume 
> downloads at a later time when you want the download to be resumed.
> 
> hth
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