Simple Download Manager for Linux/Mac
If you’re like me and you travel often, you know all too well how badly hotel wifi sucks. Often, any attempt to download a large file is often met with frustration when the signal drops and you have to restart your download all over again. Fortunately, there is a simple and blissful answer to this. Enter, the persistent wget download script:
As you can see here, only a minimum of code is needed to ensure you get that large file, no matter how many times your hotel connection craps out. Simply create a password file (if downloading from a SSL site) and supply any needed user/password credentials. This allows you to simply paste in a link and then walk away while the script does its magic.
Dependencies:
You need to install wget into your linux or mac machine. Once you have that package installed, then this script will work just fine.
In this example, I’m downloading a large movie file from my NAS at home while I’m overseas. You can see how this works here:
