something other than wget

Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net
Sat Apr 29 22:51:47 EDT 2006


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I personally use wget, but am happy to provide the following alternative suggestions:

* rsync if the remote system supports it. This has the advantage of being very efficient when mirroring large directory trees.
* lftp
* curl

- -- 
It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and
over. (History repeats itself)
Joseph C. Lininger
Oh alright, here's the *actual* signature...

And so it came to pass that on Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Joshua Lambert said

> Jude,
> the lftp program is a nice alternative to wget.  An ftp client that
> supports ftp, and http as well as https.  Very robust.
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
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