![]() ![]() The incoming pipe FULL) as long as needed to keep the owner/user happy… The folder (or rather, the folder’s magic) would ‘manage’ all theĭownloads dropped in (restarting stalled threads, etc etc and keeping To my knowledge, wget can’t do simultaneous downloads of file fragments.Īria2 can do that and on my UMTS connection speed improvements are very visible.I remember back in the dark ages of OS/2 there was a way to put aįolder on the desktop (or wherever), and then you could swipe and grabĪ URL from anywhere and ‘drop’ it in the folder and walk away… It looks very cool, but the thing is: while it’s cool that it can download torrents, but how can you manage torrents? ) I like using a single tool for multiple tasks, especially if it’s a CLI tool. Aria2 supports more protocols, so I’ll stick with that. It has some problems though with paths/files which have special characters in them - like ( % If you need just a FTP/HTTP downloader with download resuming, then wget is enough.Īria2 is actually really good and easy to use once you get used to it thanks.Īria2 is able to work with torrents, that’s the main difference from my point of view. How does this compare with wget? looks like a pretty cool tool and I will add it to my tool belt. ![]() SourceForge: aria2 bug reports and feature requestsīeen using this fine piece of software for a while, it’s really good.Download page for source, Mac OS X and Windows binaries.Bug reports, feature requests, and forums are found on SourceForge. Official Debian and Ubuntu package are available:Īria2 is actively maintained and developed by Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa. To read the man page, type: $ man aria2c AvailabilityĪria2 is available on most Linux distributions. -j for example -j5 will download 5 files concurrently.Īria2 has many other options.-s for example -s2 will download a file using 2 connections.
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