Resume Downloads from FTP using CURL

Posted by on Jul 19, 2010 in Blog, Geek, How To | No Comments

This is how you can resume a download when using Curl. Helpful for large files, mostly.

curl -C - ftp://siteorip.com/filename.zip --user username --verbose > savetothis_filename.zip

-C -                           - resumes download (if supported)
--user username"               - will prompt for password (if needed)
--verbose"                     - see what's going on
> savetothis_filename.zip      - file to output to