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Downloaded data with wget -c option gets corrupted on disconnection and retrying

Downloaded data with wget -c option gets corrupted on disconnection and retrying. Is there any way to solve my problem?
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I can't Download or Upload on Browsers even though connection is fine

I can watch videos on youtube stream and even join meetings on Teams for hours with no internet connection issues. But when it comes to downloads and uploads it just fails after a minute, on chrome ...
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Download a file and piping to uncompress is not as fast as expected

I need to download and decompress a file as quickly as possible in a very latency sensitive environment with limited resources (A VM with 1 cpu, 2 cores, 128MB RAM) Naturally, I tried to pipe the ...
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how do you get the total size of wget recursive without downloading all the files first?

i have something large to download recursively the size is estimated to be > 150GB (someone told me this is roughly the size) right now i do not have the storage space so i need to figure out how ...
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How to download all files shared in a google drive folder?

None of the other solutions answers are working. I have hundreds of images and some subfolders in a publicly shared google drive folder. I want to download all of them. How can I do that? Thank you.
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Only download first file matched by pattern using Wget

I am trying to retrieve Anaconda's install script for automated installation of it in my dotfiles. I want to retrieve the latest version of their installer script(Anaconda3-2022.10-Linux-x86_64.sh) ...
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How to cache downloads to RAM?

This is my first time posting on this forum, I apologise in advance if I inadvertently make any mistakes and welcome any suggestions for question improvements. I am running Ubuntu 22.04.1 on a laptop ...
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How can I download only certain columns of a compressed (bgz) file using wget?

We need to download a 182 GB compressed file (uncompressed as a TSV). However, we only need the first five columns of the file, which equates to approximately 1 GB. Is there some fancy shell magic ...
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Convert a file being downloaded by firefox (.part) into a named pipe?

Slightly unusual usecase: I have a download from firefox which is actually a stream of data. I want to process it in (near) real-time, without saving the data (it's high volume and would fill my drive ...
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SCP not working with RegEx

I've been trying to copy some remote files to localhost using regex expression, but it reads the regex as if it would be a regular string and does not find any files matching that. Any ideas why? file-...
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Using wget to get pdfs from a specific page of a website

I need to download all PDF files that are linked from this webpage https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/maths-revision/gcse-number/. Everything I have tried so far either does not get the files or ...
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Where to get IPA files for 32-bit iPad Mini

I have an old iPad Mini (2013 model) that I thought to resurrect as a screen for a Raspberry Pi with VNC Viewer, but when I try to download the app (or any app) via App Store I get an error with "...
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Downloaded image from cURL is failed to open, but can open from url directly

Here is my curl command to download the file. The downloaded file is corrupted and cannot be opened. The file url is https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Buick-Encore-GX-Scoop-4.jpg ...
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Apps installed via Flatpak on Pop OS unable to upload, download, import, export, or save files

I'm running Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS (a flavor of Ubuntu), all updates available in the Pop Shop have been installed. Apps installed via flatpak appear to have a permissions issue. For example-- Brave: can'...
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Download a list of files from "wget" with an script gives an error

I'm trying to download a list of files with specified filenames with wget. Since it doesn't have this option with -i I've written a simple script for it: #!/bin/bash FILENAME="list.txt" ...
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How do I download files on a linux terminal without the traditional commands(like wget)?

My university has a collaboration with a website where they give us questions to solve in the labs. The website has an IDE and a terminal. I checked and it was using Alpine Linux. I want to download ...
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WGet fails to download with an IPv6 address

When I try to download something with WGet, usually it fails if the domain name is translated to an IPv6 address. That happens more often when there's a link redirection. For example: $ wget --inet6-...
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Package dependencies install vs. download

I need to find a way to install a rpm on RHEL based systems complete offline, in my test it is AlmaLinux. So I need to download the packages and install the RPMs on the offline machine. My current ...
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curl: (6) Could not resolve host: services.gradle.org

If in Ubuntu Server is executed: curl https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-bin.zip -O appears: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current ...
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How to download latest MediaWiki from command line?

One can download MediaWiki via a web browser GUI here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download The download link there isn't version agnostic (it changes any time a new version comes out), that makes ...
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How can I download and sync my google photos to Linux?

I have alot of photos on my google account, it's painless too upload pictures there but what do I do if I want to download and sync them to my Linux system?
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Unix System III Installation

I recently became curious about history of modern operating systems. Since the best way to learn is to see yourself - I would like to ask: Is there a way to download and install Unix System III on a ...
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Transparently Rate Limiting ANY Connection that is Already In-Progress

Let's say I begin a large download, and (about an hour into it) I find that it is consuming too much of my overall bandwidth. Is there any way to rate limit that particular connection "after the ...
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open files without download them in Firefox

With latest Firefox versions (98, 99, 100, 101) download mechanism changed radically. Currently, if I decide to open a file using a system application, Firefox downloads it in the $DOWNLOAD folder. In ...
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Couldn't download an URL using curl or wget but it works in browser

I'm trying to download the below URL via terminal: https://wallpaperaccess.com/download/8k-graphics-4312822 I tried the below methods: curl -L "https://wallpaperaccess.com/download/8k-graphics-...
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How to download this web page properly?

I'm trying to download the content of this web page: https://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&itemId=1119299160&bcsId=10685. In particular, I'm interested to the pdf files that can be ...
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How to download all repositories of a GitHub account to my personal computer without using github cli? [duplicate]

I use WSL Ubuntu 18.04 unchanged. I have one GitHub user with 6 GitHub repositories of that user. Basically I just need to download all my GitHub repositories as I wish to make a local backup of all ...
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How to install FASTQC on home space as I do not have access to the root server

I am trying to run FASTQC on some data. I am working on a server where I do not have root access. Does anyone know a way where I can install fastqc in my home space as I don't have root on the server ...
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How to download all PDF files linked from a single page using wget

I need to download all PDF files that are linked from this webpage https://www.in.tum.de/i07/lehre/ss22/theo/. Everything I have tried so far either does not get the files or downloads the entire ...
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wget/curl command not getting the contents of a file from a link

I have a .bin file that I would like to download, it's around 10GB in size. The file can be found here (any of the 4 download links): http://mazajak.inf.ed.ac.uk:8000/#embedding-page. When I download ...
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What is the difference between lynx and pandoc? [closed]

In this thread I was suggested to do an action with lynx or pandoc. To my understanding, both programs can output an all backend and solely or primarily textual webpage, in console, pretty much as ...
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How to download an HTML file as plain text? [duplicate]

If one downloads a webpage with curl or wget it comes down as html. But if I wish to download it as plain text (i.e. no HTML parsing whatsoever), exactly or almost exactly as it would be plainly read ...
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How to make a list of values out of a webpage?

In this webpage there is a list of MediaWiki special pages (i.e. pages of the Special: namespace) and I wish to make a simple text list of all these names automatically. I assume that a matching ...
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How to download all the files from a given format in a given URL related to a file server using command line

Suppose there is some URL: example.com/folder1. This URL, when accessed using browsers like Chrome and Firefox, is not a website as we're habituated, but a page containing files to download (I'd say a ...
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VS Code Download Error

I am using Centos and I get this error message on trying to download the vs code for linux. I have tried updating the system but still no progress.Please help. Total download size: 108 M Installed ...
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How to download and compile source code from Fedora

There is an very old game (named "six") that is still available on Fedora as package six.x86_64 that I want to use in a hobby project of mine. I have more recent source from the original ...
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Get a list of files (in the way similar to `ls`) on website/webpage before choosing which to download

Let's say I'm on a webpage on which there are several hyperlinks to pdf documents. I want to download those pdf. Is there a way to get a list of those documents (in the ls way) which then allows to ...
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How can I download wine HQ?

I have a desperate problem. I really need wineHQ, and I can't download or install. I can download other apps, but wineHQ won't download. I can't install it by running sudo apt install --install-...
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How to download a folder from a webserver which the developer left accidently, while the directory listing is disabled? [duplicate]

There is a backup folder at the location https://abc.efg.com/assets/images/socialIcons%20(copy)/, which the developer left by mistake, and I want to download it, as a part of vulnerability assessment (...
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How to download multiple files simultaniously with wget?

I am downloading ~330k scientific files with wget from a csv file containing the URLs of the files I need to download. So, I am using the command wget -i all_the_urls.csv and my file all_the_urls.csv ...
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How to interrupt and continue downloading many wget files without repetitons?

I am downloading ~330k scientific files with wget from a csv file containing the URLs of the files I need to download. So, I am using the command wget -i all_the_urls.csv and my file all_the_urls.csv ...
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Strategies for dealing with large remote files, and slow networks

So, here's the basic problem, I need to distribute qcow2 images, to a bunch of remote machines; no big deal, right? Well, the complication is that some of these happen to rely on 4/5G modems, and ...
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Update two devices on the same local network by one download

I have two laptops with the same exact OS of openSUSE Leap 15.3 on my local network. I want to be able to update both of them with sudo zypper ref and sudo zypper up at the same time and by just one ...
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how to get raw file from a web page showing source file?

For example, in this page : https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/arm64/boot/dts/arm/fvp-base-revc.dts I want to download the .dts file. But if I just do wget https://elixir.bootlin.com/...
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How can I download specific files recursive, while maintaining folder structure?

So, I just downloaded a several folders using rsync, it went something like this: rsync -rzP user@domain:/mnt/file_direction /mnt/Downloads/Files This worked well for a massive download, however, now ...
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How to download all files from a GitHub repository but not zipped by GitHub?

I want to download all files from a GitHub repository but not zipped by GitHub (i.e. not inside one zip archive automatically created by GitHub's system), rather I just want to download all the files ...
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Arch Linux display Xorg not function at all, but Wayland does (very poorly). Corrupted Xorg files from mirror?

Hello fellow Linux users, I recently purchased an old laptop and decided to try Arch Linux. I bought it to see just how well Arch is for a system and also due to the fact of my main PC's HDD is giving ...
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I want to download a vim release - but there are thousands!

I want to download and build a release of vim, but on the vim github repo - there are over 12,000 releases, and a release is made every few hours. What should I do?
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Download from list of wget command saved in txt file

I have list of wget command as shown below: wget -q -nH --no-check-certificate --cut-dirs=5 -r -l0 -c -N -np -R 'index*' -erobots=off --retr-symlinks https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/swift/data/obs/...
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How to fix microsoft repo downloads being slow for apt upgrade?

Intro: I'm running into an issue while upgrading my installed packages with apt, and I'm curious whether you have an idea where to start resolving my issue, because I'm afraid I don't. I'm surprised ...
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