FileFormat.Info » curl http://fileformat.wordpress.com Observations from running www.FileFormat.Info Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:28:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/5545e65fed59b043d22ac0b7d44a9d8c?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png FileFormat.Info » curl http://fileformat.wordpress.com Resuming an HTTP download with Curl http://fileformat.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/resuming-an-http-download-with-curl/ http://fileformat.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/resuming-an-http-download-with-curl/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:53:18 +0000 fileformat http://fileformat.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/resuming-an-http-download-with-curl/ ]]>

I had to download an ISO image to test some new firewall software and it got interrupted halfway through. Fortunately, curl has a way to continue from where you left out with the “-C -” option. A full command line looks like:

curl -C – –compressed –output disk.iso http://example/download/disk.iso

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At work we have a slower (1.1 Mbps) internet connection and I don’t want to hog it when I need to download a big file. Fortunately, curl has a –limit-rate option. For example (should be one line):

curl –verbose –output bigfile.tar.gz –limit-rate 3000 http://download.example.com/bigfile.tar.gz

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