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Lightweight CLI download accelerator
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[Enhancement request] Add auto-resume #422

Open colemar opened 4 months ago

colemar commented 4 months ago

If the remote host closes the connection axel stops. When given the same arguments again, axel resumes the download, provided that the web server supports it. This happens today about every 3 minutes downloading from https://str-28.filestore.app/. It would be great to have an option telling axel to resume the download by itself.

Axel 2.17.11 (linux-gnu)

colemar commented 4 months ago

Yes, there is a simple workaround: while true; do axel ... ; done But this is not ideal since it does not stop when the download is completed.

This seems to work though: until axel ... ; do echo ---RESUME---; done