[gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

[gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

[maxim wexler]

Hi group,

I tried wget'ing this on dialup: 
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso

Then, because I needed to use the phone, after
downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there
thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong!

wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the
-nc option and it reports 'already there, not
retrieving'. 

What did I do wrong? I've done this before with other
files and this never happened. Maybe I used a
different tool, can't remember.

-Maxim


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Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler
<blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I tried wget'ing this on dialup: 
> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
> 
> Then, because I needed to use the phone, after
> downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there
> thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong!
> 
> wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the
> -nc option and it reports 'already there, not
> retrieving'. 

Did you actually bother to read what "-nc" does? In fact I think you
were searching "-c" option...

-hwh
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Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

[Renat Golubchyk]

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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler
<blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I tried wget'ing this on dialup: 
> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
> 
> Then, because I needed to use the phone, after
> downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there
> thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong!
> 
> wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the
> -nc option and it reports 'already there, not
> retrieving'. 

It should be "wget -c" not "-nc".


Cheers,
Renat

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Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

[Jim]

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On 163609048 maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi group,
> 
> I tried wget'ing this on dialup: 
> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
> 
> Then, because I needed to use the phone, after
> downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there
> thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong!
> 
> wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the
> -nc option and it reports 'already there, not
> retrieving'. 
> 
> What did I do wrong? I've done this before with other
> files and this never happened. Maybe I used a
> different tool, can't remember.
> 
> -Maxim

Use wget -c.

Example, you start to download http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso
and your connection dies.  To continue you would use:

wget -c http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso

Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 3/13/06, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Then, because I needed to use the phone, after
> downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there
> thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong!
>
> wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the
> -nc option and it reports 'already there, not
> retrieving'.
>
> What did I do wrong? I've done this before with other
> files and this never happened. Maybe I used a
> different tool, can't remember.

>From "man wget":
---------------------------------------
 -nc
       --no-clobber

(snip)

When running Wget without -N, -nc, or -r, downloading the same file in
the same directory will result in the original copy of file being
preserved and the second copy being named file.1.  If that file is
downloaded yet again, the third copy will be named file.2, and so on.

When -nc is specified, this behavior is suppressed, and Wget will
refuse to download newer copies of file.  Therefore, ``"no-clobber"''
is actually a misnomer in this mode---it's not clobbering that's
prevented (as the numeric suffixes were already preventing
clobbering), but rather the multiple version saving that's prevented.

-c
       --continue
Continue getting a partially-downloaded file.  This is useful when you
want to finish up a download started by a previous instance of Wget,
or by another program.  For instance:

wget -c ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/ls-lR.Z

If there is a file named ls-lR.Z in the current directory, Wget will
assume that it is the first portion of the remote file, and will ask
the server to continue the retrieval from an offset equal to the
length of the local file.
---------------------------------------

Simply try:
wget -c "ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso"

And be happy...

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Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

[Christoph Eckert]

> wget -c http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso

you can even start a download with the -c option.


Best regards


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[gentoo-user] Re: wget won't concatenate(?)

[Marc Christiansen]

maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Then, because I needed to use the phone, after
> downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there
> thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong!
> 
> wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the
> -nc option and it reports 'already there, not
> retrieving'. 
> 
> What did I do wrong? I've done this before with other
> files and this never happened. Maybe I used a
> different tool, can't remember.

Hi Maxim,

what you did wrong was using '-nc' when you wanted to use '-c' ;). From
wget --help:
|  -nc, --no-clobber              skip downloads that would download to
|                                 existing files.
|  -c,  --continue                resume getting a partially-downloaded file.

And why it did work before, maybe you used '-c' and just mis-remembered
the option, or you're right and it was a different tool. Who knows...

Adiaŭ, Marc

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Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

[maxim wexler]

--- Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:38:06 -0800 (PST) maxim
> wexler
> <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I tried wget'ing this on dialup: 
> >
>
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso
> > 
> > Then, because I needed to use the phone, after
> > downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there
> > thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong!
> > 
> > wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it
> the
> > -nc option and it reports 'already there, not
> > retrieving'. 
> 
> Did you actually bother to read what "-nc" does? In
> fact I think you
> were searching "-c" option...


Dang! Your right. -nc seemed like the option to use.
Not getting Clobbered is important to me. Sorry you
had to descend Olympus to deal with such a trifle. In
my defense I can only say I was overcome with an
excess of zeal to advance the gentoo project
and...aren't -nc and -c out of order?


> 
> -hwh
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> 
> 


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