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NAME

6       metalink — commandline metalink generator
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SYNOPSIS

9       metalink [input files]  [ < mirror list]
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DESCRIPTION

12       This manual page documents briefly the metalink command.
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14       This  manual  page  was written for the Debian distribution because the
15       original program does not have a manual page.
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17       metalink allows you to generate metalinks from a list of mirrors and  a
18       collection of files. The files are hashed and the resulting metalink is
19       generated on the stdout.
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OPTIONS

22       These programs follow the usual GNU  command  line  syntax,  with  long
23       options  starting  with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary of options is
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26       -h           --help
27                 Produce a help message
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29                 --version
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32                 --md5
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35                 --addpath path
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38                 --headerfile arg
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41                 --nomirrors
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53                 --mindigests
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68       Supported algorithms are (-d  options):  md4  md5  sha1  sha256  sha384
69       sha512 rmd160 tiger crc32 ed2k gnunet sha1pieces
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71       Mirror lists are single line definitions according to: [location [pref‐
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EXAMPLES

75       http://example.com/ as a mirror: echo http://example.com | metalink  -d
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80       10 % http://example.com | metalink -d md5 -d sha1 *
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82       http://example.com/ as a mirror with  preference  only:  echo  0  10  %
83       http://example.com | metalink -d md5 *
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AUTHOR

86       This  manual page was written by A. Bram Neijt bneijt@gmail.com for the
87       Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission  is  granted  to
88       copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
89       General Public License, Version 2 any later version  published  by  the
90       Free Software Foundation.
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93       On  Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
94       can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
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