starting multiple simultaneous downloads of a file

[Steven W. Orr]

On Friday, Dec 19th 2008 at 12:46 -0000, quoth Ali, Saqib:

=>Hello All,
=>
=>I am looking for a utility that can start multiple simultaneous
=>downloads of a file. I was looking into wget, but it doesn't seem like
=>that it can do that.
=>
=>Any thoughts?

Use lftp. Very cool ftp client.

It has the usual get and put commands, but you can also say pget (for 
parallel get). It'll run multple simultanous gets on different segements 
of the desired file. Does a nice job of saturating your NIC.

yum install lftp

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