1LWP-DOWNLOAD(1)       User Contributed Perl Documentation      LWP-DOWNLOAD(1)
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NAME

6       lwp-download - Fetch large files from the web
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SYNOPSIS

9        lwp-download [-a] [-s] <url> [<local path>]
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13          -a   save the file in ASCII mode
14          -s   use HTTP headers to guess output filename
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DESCRIPTION

17       The lwp-download program will save the file at url to a local file.
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19       If local path is not specified, then the current directory is assumed.
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21       If local path is a directory, then the last segment of the path of the
22       url is appended to form a local filename.  If the url path ends with
23       slash the name "index" is used.  With the -s option pick up the last
24       segment of the filename from server provided sources like the Content-
25       Disposition header or any redirect URLs.  A file extension to match the
26       server reported Content-Type might also be appended.  If a file with
27       the produced filename already exists, then lwp-download will prompt
28       before it overwrites and will fail if its standard input is not a
29       terminal.  This form of invocation will also fail is no acceptable
30       filename can be derived from the sources mentioned above.
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32       If local path is not a directory, then it is simply used as the path to
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35       The lwp-download program is implemented using the libwww-perl library.
36       It is better suited to down load big files than the lwp-request program
37       because it does not store the file in memory.  Another benefit is that
38       it will keep you updated about its progress and that you don't have
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41       Use the "-a" option to save the file in text (ASCII) mode.  Might make
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EXAMPLE

45       Fetch the newest and greatest perl version:
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47        $ lwp-download http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz
48        Saving to 'latest.tar.gz'...
49        11.4 MB received in 8 seconds (1.43 MB/sec)
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AUTHOR

52       Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
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