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Create resumable podcast downloads
Authored by: thelamecamel on May 28, '06 08:55:50AM

Yes and no. Yes it works for any file. But it doesn't work like Safari's resumable
downloads, which for me can't resume when things go pear-shaped - i just get a
shorter MP3 than expected. So the hint is that curl can force-resume downloads
that iTunes/Safari woulh have mistakenly thought were completed.



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Create resumable podcast downloads
Authored by: trendyhendy on May 25, '06 04:38:03PM

My podcast workflow (I too have a slow Internet connection) is to copy the URLs from NetNewsWire, paste them into a file on my desktop named dl.txt, then invoke the following command from Terminal:

wget -c -i dl.txt

The -c flag starts any unstarted downloads, resumes any unfinished downloads, or skips and completed downloads. The -i flag tells wget to read the URLs from the file specified.

wget will automatically follow any redirects and give the output files the proper names.



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