wget replacement?

[Ed Greshko]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 22:42, 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/'

Just a thought...

rsync may be better for this type of work.


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