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AXEL(1) | General Commands Manual | AXEL(1) |
NAME¶
Axel - A light download accelerator for Linux.SYNOPSIS¶
axel [ OPTIONS] url1 [url2] [url...]DESCRIPTION¶
Axel is a program that downloads a file from a FTP or HTTP server through multiple connection, each connection downloads its own part of the file.OPTIONS¶
One argument is required, the URL to the file you want to download. When downloading from FTP, the filename may contain wildcards and the program will try to resolve the full filename. Multiple URL's can be specified as well and the program will use all those URL's for the download. Please note that the program does not check whether the files are equal.- --max-speed=x, -s x
- You can specify a speed (bytes per second) here and Axel
will try to keep the average speed around this speed. Useful if you don't
want the program to suck up all of your bandwidth.
- --num-connections=x, -n x
- You can specify an alternative number of connections here.
- --output=x, -o x
- Downloaded data will be put in a local file with the same
name, unless you specify a different name using this option. You can
specify a directory as well, the program will append the filename.
- --search[=x], -S[x]
- Axel can do a search for mirrors using the
filesearching.com search engine. This search will be done if you use this
option. You can specify how many different mirrors should be used for the
download as well.
- --no-proxy, -N
- Don't use any proxy server to download the file. Not
possible when a transparent proxy is active somewhere, of course.
- --verbose
- If you want to see more status messages, you can use this
option. Use it more than once if you want to see more.
- --quiet, -q
- No output to stdout.
- --alternate, -a
- This will show an alternate progress indicator. A bar
displays the progress and status of the different threads, along with
current speed and an estimate for the remaining download time.
- --header=x, -H x
- Add an additional HTTP header. This option should be in the
form "Header: Value". See RFC 2616 section 4.2 and 14 for
details on the format and standardized headers.
- --user-agent=x, -U x
- Set the HTTP user agent to use. Some websites serve
different content based upon this parameter. The default value will
include "Axel", its version and the platform.
- --help, -h
- A brief summary of all the options.
- --version, -V
- Get version information.
NOTE¶
Long (double dash) options are supported only if your platform knows about the getopt_long call. If it does not (like *BSD), only the short options can be used.RETURN VALUE¶
The program returns 0 when the download was succesful, 1 if something really went wrong and 2 if the download was interrupted. If something else comes back, it must be a bug..EXAMPLES¶
axel ftp://ftp.{be,nl,uk,de}.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.17.tar.bz2
axel -S4 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.17.tar.bz2