Rodney
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The non-interactive network downloader (ftp, http, etc.)
wget version 1.9 is now available. This is an update
from the previous version and links against the latest openssl
library released yesterday.
You can install it by doing:
pkg_add ftp://www.interopsystems.com/pkgs/3.5/wget-current-bin.tgz
From the man page the interesting insformation about wget is:
GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of
files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP pro-
tocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.
Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the
background, while the user is not logged on. This allows
you to start a retrieval and disconnect from the system,
letting Wget finish the work. By contrast, most of the
Web browsers require constant user's presence, which can
be a great hindrance when transferring a lot of data.
Wget can follow links in HTML and XHTML pages and create
local versions of remote web sites, fully recreating the
directory structure of the original site. This is some-
times referred to as ``recursive downloading.'' While
doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard
(/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the
links in downloaded HTML files to the local files for
offline viewing.
Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unsta-
ble network connections; if a download fails due to a net-
work problem, it will keep retrying until the whole file
has been retrieved. If the server supports regetting, it
will instruct the server to continue the download from
where it left off.
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