Re: A dumb question on gunzip
Anders Holmberg <[email protected]>
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Hi! Now to my dum question. How would one know the exact link for a file to download from with Wget? I can google it of course but i ask here first. Thanks. /A > On 14 Aug 2016, at 07:12, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Probably the whole file didn't download and without that -c switch wget would not have continued trying to download if it got disconnected. > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Tim Chase wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:59:47 >> From: Tim Chase <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]> >> To: John J. Boyer <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: A dumb question on gunzip >> On August 13, 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: >>> I'm trying to unzip the Cygwin User Guide located at the link "One >>> large compressed html file". However, when I download the file and >>> type gunzip filename >>> I get garbage. The man page doesn't enlighten me. So please answer >>> this dumb question: how do i get a good html file? >> >> I'm not sure what happened to your file, but I just performed the >> following two commands: >> >> wget -c https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html.gz >> unzip cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html.gz >> >> and was left with a "cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html" file in the >> directory that I could browse with any of multiple browsers. >> >> -tim >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list