wget replacement?

[Jeff Kinz]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:42:28AM -0600, Steve Buehler wrote:
> Does anybody know of a replacement for wget that will work as well as wget, 
> but will not have the file size limit problem?  wget can't get a file that 
> is bigger than 2gigs in size.  On the wget mail list, it is reported as a 
> bug by some and as just a feature request by others.  I am trying to mirror 
> an ftp directory for a client so they can have a backup, but one file stops 
> the wget download process.  I can't find a way to exclude that one file 
> from the wget download so now I have to see if there is another program out 
> there that can work as well.  Here is the command that I use.  Yes, I have 
> replaced the server IP with a fictious one.  The actual IP is for an 
> internet IP.
> 
> wget --passive-ftp --mirror --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1 
> --directory-prefix=/home/SHARE1/ 'ftp://login:password@192.168.1.1/SHARE1/'


How about "curl"
       curl - get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP
or HTTPS syntax.

or ftp, or rsync.

I must say however, that the 2 GB limit sounds like a compiled in OS or
user resource limit.  Can your user create a file >2GB on thesame file
system?  You may want to check that before going further.

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