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Method to perform DNS lookup step very quickly during wget

When I download any document from internet using wget. It shows maximum amount of time consumed in getaddrinfo(). I know getaddrinfo() used for DNS lookup. Tell me any method, so that this time is ...
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Bash While loops

I have a loop set up like the following #!/bin/bash cat $1|while read line;do wget --limit-rate=50k http://url/$line.json -O got-$line; if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then rm got-$line; fi ...
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Download from dynamically changing urls via script

I want to write a script to download all Walter Lewin lectures from this page in wmv format: http://videolectures.net/mit801f99_physics_classical_mechanics/ However the links to the wmv file for ...
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What is wget idiom for curl -o?

So I use code in some function like if [ ! -e $DOWNLOADS/$1 ]; then echo_run curl -L http://$4/$5/$1 -o $DOWNLOADS/$1 fi I wonder how to acheive same thing with out curl?
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Set a network range in the no_proxy environment variable

I'm in a network using a proxy. I've got machines using lots of scripts here and there accessing each other over HTTP. The network is 10.0.0.0/8. My proxy is 10.1.1.1:81, so I set it up accordingly: ...
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Force wget to download only from HTTPS?

wget https://skype.com -O - > /dev/null isn't good. I just want to create a short bash script to check that an HTTPS cert is valid or no. i think wget doesn't connects if the cert is invalid. i ...