Monday, March 21, 2011

Wget,the best download manager for Linux

Those using Download managers in Windows may be in difficulty finding a good download manager for Linux.However the best download manager for Linux is Wget.Although it doesn’t have a GUI and is a terminal based program,it is much responsive and faster than any other Download manager.
Just fire up a terminal,and issue


wget "download location"
If the download location contains brackets,then you have to use inverted commas.
To pause a task,issue Ctrl+Z.
To start it again,type fg "number"
where number is the job number given when you press Ctrl+Z.Typically first task is given number 1.If you want to start the unfinished download,hover to that directory containing the file,and issue same command as you would do to start download but with -c switch.
Happy downloading..

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