Download Program

[Smith, Albert]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Buehler
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:30 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Download Program
> 
> At 01:01 AM 3/2/2005, you wrote:
> 
> > >But i need solution, which should be able to resume the 
> process where 
> > >it was broken.
> >
> >The wget program is a solution, as it will indeed automatically 
> >reconnect and start up where it left off, IFF the server it 
> attaches to 
> >supports that feature.
> >
> >I use wget all the time and it has never failed in reconnecting and 
> >completing downloads, if the connection is broken.
> 
> I use wget to mirror a remote server for backup purposes 
> (80GB of data).  The problem that I have is that if a file 
> name has a space in it on the remote server, it will put a 
> %20 in place of that space when it creates the file on the 
> local system.  Anybody know of a way that I can have the file 
> name the exact same on the local system as the remote system?
> Thanks
> Steve
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I would write a script to search out for the %20 and replace it with a
space, this can be done by putting " " around the new name, Unix doesn't
behave to nicely with names with spcaes in it unless the name is
enclosed in quotes.


Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services
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