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Aria2 – wget and curl replacement

I have a few homegrown scripts I use at work that use wget and curl.  I was looking for something a little simpler and faster.  Enter Aria2 which is a command-line program that can grab HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Metalink, and BitTorrent files.  It should be in most package manager archives but here is a link for the download.  This tool is available for most Linux and UNIX distributions.  The source code is also avaialable for compiling.  If you have Cygwin installed this will work in Windows too.

On my Ubuntu system I was able to run:

“sudo apt-get install aria2″

Let me know if you like Arai2 and if you have any useful Linux commands or programs to share in the comments.

Related:

Aria2 + Firefox 3 (Offsite Link)

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One Response to “Aria2 – wget and curl replacement”

  1. I really like aria2. Especially with the -s5 command. You can download a file in 5 segments, making it a lot faster.

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