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NAME

ProZilla - a download accelerator for GNU/Linux

SYNTAX

proz [OPTIONS] <URL>

DESCRIPTION

ProZilla is a program that makes multiple connections and downloads a file in multiple parts simultaneously thus enhancing the download speed and downloading the file faster than a download with a single connection.

ProZilla is also able to do ftp searches for other possible sites that contain the same file, ping them for connection speeds and automatically download from the fastest site, or ask the user to choose one.

FTP passwords can be specified with the URL, or can be obtained automatically from ~/.netrc if it exists.

OPTIONS

-r: Resume an interrupted download

-f, --force: Never prompt the user when overwriting files

-1: Force a single connection only

-s, --ftpsearch: Invokes prozilla to do a ftp search for other sites

-n, --no-netrc: Don't use ~/.netrc, get the user/password from the command line, otherwise use the anonymous login FTP sessions

-L, --license: Display software license

-h, --help: Give some help

-v, --version: Display version number

FTP OPTIONS

--use-port: Force usage of PORT instead of PASV (default) for ftp transactions

-s --ftpsearch: Invokes prozilla to do a ftp search for other sites

DOWNLOAD OPTIONS

-k=n: Use n connections instead of the default (4)

--timeout=n: Set the timeout for connections to n seconds (default 180)

-t, --tries=n: Set number of attempts to n (default (30), 0=unlimited)

--retry-delay=n: Set the time between retries to n seconds (default 10 seconds)

EXAMPLES

proz <URL>: ProZilla will connect to that server and download the file using the default settings

proz -1 <URL>: ProZilla will connect and download the file in 1 part only

proz -s <URL>: invokes ftpsearch and will download from the fastest server or a user-chosen site

proz -s -k=10 <URL>: invokes ftpsearch and will download from the fastest server or a user-chosen site using 10 connections

FILES

/etc/prozilla.conf: The global configfile

~/.prozrc: The per-user configfile

~/.netrc: A file which can be used to provide prozilla with hosts, accounts and passwords

ENVIRONMENT

PROZRC: The location of the .prozrc per-user configfile.

BUGS

Please report bugs to <[email protected]>

AUTHOR

Kalum Somaratna <[email protected]>

Several contributions come from:
Richard Dawe <[email protected]>
Lourens Veen <[email protected]>
Flower <[email protected]>
D. J. Bernstein <[email protected]>
Biscuit <[email protected]>
Hrvoje Niksic <[email protected]>
Silviu Marin-Caea <[email protected]>
Ralph Slooten <[email protected]>
Tse Chi Ming <[email protected]>
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[email protected]>
Calum Selkirk <[email protected]>
Seth Cohn <[email protected]>
Davy Durham <[email protected]>
Uwe Hermann <[email protected]>
Drew <[email protected]>
Andy Jeffries <[email protected]>
Guillermo Pereyra Irujo <[email protected]>
Michael Duelli <[email protected]>
Steven Hatfield <[email protected]>

Manpage:
Ralph Slooten <[email protected]>
Flower <[email protected]>
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[email protected]>
Uwe Hermann <[email protected]>