Downloading a file with wget using multiple connections

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user2789031 picture user2789031 · Mar 1, 2014 · Viewed 29.1k times · Source

How to download a file with wget using multiple connection in which each connection downloads a part of the file?

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Jayesh Bhoi picture Jayesh Bhoi · Mar 1, 2014

use aria2

 aria2c -x 16 [url] #where 16 is the number of connections

OR

Just repeat the wget -r -np -N [url] for as many threads as you need. This isn’t pretty and there are surely better ways to do this, but if you want something quick and dirty it should do the trick.

Please look at http://blog.netflowdevelopments.com/2011/01/24/multi-threaded-downloading-with-wget/

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