Download manager

[Jorge Martínez]

Sorry, I should have thanked kirol. I was excited with the results.

So now, thank you, kirol.

[Jorge Martínez]

I did it in my very first try!!!
It's fantastic.

With just a single sentence in the command line, namely

wget --convert-links -r http://argentina.informatik.uni-muen...gos/todas.html -o Tang

I downloaded some 14 000 files: 12 000 tango lyrics and 2000 cooking recipes.

I'm ready now to download book collections, my aim at this endeavour.

Thank you for your help and crystal clear explanations.

However (there's always a "however", isn't it?), I find it uncomfortable that the process develops by itself and I'm blind about what's going on. I don't get any progress report, no percent advance bar, no idea how long it will take to finish. I have to go by roundabout ways such as exploring the destiny directory and see the files being added, just to know it's working.

Perhaps with a deeper study of the wget manual (that I ought to do anyhow), I might find a solution to this. But probably somebody who reads this might give me a hand and suggest me what to do.

By the way, it is refreshng to return to the CLI after so many years. I used it in DOS before the Windows era.

[Jorge Martínez]

With a little further look at the wget commands, I found out:

--progress=bar

That does the trick and keeps me informed of the advance of the job.

Thanks again for your help.