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By: Another console download manager « Motho ke motho ka botho

Another console download manager « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:18:34 +0000

[...] had much luck in tracking that down, unless this is what it means. It works in much the same way as I originally envisioned when I thought I was coming up with an original idea, and probably if I had enough skill to put [...]

By: fttps: A command-line download manager « Motho ke motho ka botho

fttps: A command-line download manager « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:16:27 +0000

[...] , Ubuntu , Ubuntu Forums Last month I mused (and yes, “muse” is a verb) that a command-line download manager would be a nifty thing to have. It could run easily on the weakest of hardware, doing a job that [...]

By: Luca

Luca — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:19:00 +0000

I used to have RTorrent working on a remote machine, with a watch folder on that machine. I used to scp files over to it, and they were automatically added. I created a script which when given a torrent file as an argument would send it over and delete it on the local machine.

By: dave foster

dave foster — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:36:56 +0000

i was about to mention fsniper (i wrote a large portion of it), but it appears popularity is spreading

By: Dieter_be

Dieter_be — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:59:42 +0000

Yeah fsniper is cool.

By: benny

benny — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:32:10 +0000

You could try fsniper. It watches the given folder and performs actions based on given text file configuration. I think a simple wrapper around wget and cat or something will do. I use it together with firefox download directory for example. Any torrent files land automaticaly in my rtorrent watch directory, openbox/gtk themes unpack to ~/.themes and so on. Oh and of course fsniper is a daemon w/ textfile config

great blog by the way. I learn a lot from you (I think it is the first time since I started reading ~6month ago, when I think I have something useful to mention )

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:31:06 +0000

Ah, okay. I was a little nervous for a second. But yes, it seems like a script or a cron job would do the trick, if properly designed.

By: dpick

dpick — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:26:37 +0000

Nope, you just so happened to post just before I had class.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:20:12 +0000

Geez that was fast. Were you hovering on the page, waiting for me to press the “submit” button?

By: dpick

dpick — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:14:09 +0000

Seems like a pretty simple script could accomplish the task. Wget is a built in app for downloading things, why not use it?

Any program you would find is probably using wget anyway .