Note between the last there is no plus sign
This example will close the pipe after transferring 100MB at a speed of 3MB per second.
This is for files only, for directories 'mirror' has to be used.
This command downloads the actual 20 most popular pictures from the website 500px. It uses a random name due to the fact the the pictures in 500px are stored with the same name. UPDATED: doesn't work if no referrer is specified: --referer='http://500px.com/'
It works best if you first login and then do the fetch: lftp -u user,pass ftp://site.com/ mirror -c --parallel=3 --use-pget-n=5 "Some folder"
There can be more than one trailing slash, all of them will be removed.
Blocksize (bs) is not mandatory. It's only needed when the count option is specified.
apt-get install cmatrix cmatrix-xfont wmctrl transset-df
Need to restart computer for mtx font to work
Commands while cmatrix is running:
1 - 9 = Change speed
SHIFT + 1 - 7 = change colors
Q = Quit
Tested in Ubuntu 10.04
When it says "Invalid Directory Name"
You can redirect the pipe to > file.txt See more here: http://ss64.com/nt/dir.html
-L RATE, --rate-limit RATE Limit the transfer to a maximum of RATE bytes per second. A suffix of "k", "m", "g", or "t" can be added to denote kilobytes (*1024), megabytes, and so on. It must be an integer.
NOTE that pax goes always recursively, for that reason -d option should be added when you don't want to go recursively into directories.
This example will close the pipe after transferring 100MB at a speed of 3MB per second.
The option -print0 for find and -0 for grep help prevent issue with weird characters or spaces in filenames. Furthermore with xargs there is no limited number of arguments that find can throw.
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