Hi! Now to my dum question. How would one know the exact link for a file to download from with Wget? I can google it of course but i ask here first. Thanks. /A > On 14 Aug 2016, at 07:12, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Probably the whole file didn't download and without that -c switch wget would not have continued trying to download if it got disconnected. > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Tim Chase wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:59:47 >> From: Tim Chase <blinux.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >> To: John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: A dumb question on gunzip >> On August 13, 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: >>> I'm trying to unzip the Cygwin User Guide located at the link "One >>> large compressed html file". However, when I download the file and >>> type gunzip filename >>> I get garbage. The man page doesn't enlighten me. So please answer >>> this dumb question: how do i get a good html file? >> >> I'm not sure what happened to your file, but I just performed the >> following two commands: >> >> wget -c https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html.gz >> unzip cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html.gz >> >> and was left with a "cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html" file in the >> directory that I could browse with any of multiple browsers. >> >> -tim >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list