wget and lynx
Linux and Unix gurus can ignore this post, but if you have better tips to share, please feel free to comment. I write this mainly as a note to myself and hopefully help out Linux / Unix newbies at the same time.
wget is perfect for downloading stuff through a command line. This is a great tool if your only access to the server is SSH. You can append & at the end of shell command line so the download happens in the background. You can do other productive work while download is ongoing.
lynx is a text based web browser. Don’t laugh, I found it pretty handy for some quick and dirty browsing and Yahoo mail checking. Unfortunately, it does not work with gmail.
Chris McAvoy Said,
November 9, 2005 @
wget is a great utility. On my FreeBSD system, fetch comes pre-installed, so I’ve started to use it pretty frequently, although wget is just a quick install away.
Another good one to look into, if you only have SSH access, is scp. It transfers files over an SSH connection, something like this:
scp somefile.txt username@server:somefile.txt
Haidong Ji Said,
November 9, 2005 @
Thanks for sharing Chris.
*nix is definitely a developer’s OS. There is so much little utilities that you can use and automate things with a varieties of tools. I am learning more every day.