Re: Command-line file downloader

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"Jason Gurtz" <jasonNOgurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Mark Blain wrote:
There's a feature comparison of several command-line downloading tools
including cURL and wget at
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/comparison-table.html

The lack of recursive downloading is a pretty significant hit against
curl. FWIW, the comparison table also barely scratches the features of
wget.

It barely scratches the features of curl too.-)
While curl itself doesn't perform recursive up/downloads, there are libcurl
based programs which have this capability.
And besides downloads, curl/libcurl does uploads too.
Has wget an accompanying libwget?!
Does it support large files?
OK, thats now rhetoric, but LFS support was introduced just recently.
Look at the history of both tools: wget was written to fetch web pages,
curl was written to "grok URLs".

It appears the main advantage of curl is support for a small handful of
additional protocols.

And uploads too, and a library, ...

IMO to issue a blanket statement that it is carte
blanch better than wget is pretty bold. That said, curl is a pretty
great choice.

I wrote "better" not without reason enclosed in quotes.

Maybe more important is the related curl library for programming projects :)

Right.

It also might be worth taking a look at the ncftp package. In addition
to the interactive commandline ftp client, there is also the scriptable
ncftpput and ncftpget included (of course it is ftp only).

Good luck in all automated file transfer projects...

But on the first hand: why should I "install" a third party solution at
all and not use BITS instead (which has the advantage to use the Internet
settings of Windows). Unfortunately BITSAdmin.exe needs to be installed
from the support tools package too.

Stefan

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