On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:42:28AM -0600, Steve Buehler wrote: > Does anybody know of a replacement for wget that will work as well as wget, > but will not have the file size limit problem? wget can't get a file that > is bigger than 2gigs in size. On the wget mail list, it is reported as a > bug by some and as just a feature request by others. I am trying to mirror > an ftp directory for a client so they can have a backup, but one file stops > the wget download process. I can't find a way to exclude that one file > from the wget download so now I have to see if there is another program out > there that can work as well. Here is the command that I use. Yes, I have > replaced the server IP with a fictious one. The actual IP is for an > internet IP. > > wget --passive-ftp --mirror --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=1 > --directory-prefix=/home/SHARE1/ 'ftp://login:password@xxxxxxxxxxx/SHARE1/' How about "curl" curl - get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or HTTPS syntax. or ftp, or rsync. I must say however, that the 2 GB limit sounds like a compiled in OS or user resource limit. Can your user create a file >2GB on thesame file system? You may want to check that before going further. -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "jkinz@xxxxxxxx" is copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
