Re: [Bug-wget] limit download size -- 201901233

[Yousong Zhou]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 12:06, <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>   acording to
>     $wget --help
>   i should send reports and suggestions to this address, so i hope i'm doing 
> right here.
>
>    the version of my distribution, given by the above command, is "GNU Wget 
> 1.18"
>
>    and i don't seem to see an option to limit the retrieval to a certain 
> amount of data or a range.
>    is it possible?
>
> thanks in advance and happy new year,
>
> Zui
> 201901233
>

Wget has an option "--start-pos ZERO-based-offset".  I use "head -c N"
for limiting the download size [1].

 [1] mget for downloading pieces of remote file in parallel,
https://github.com/yousong/dconf/blob/master/data/_usr.env/bin/mget#L43

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