How to perform segmented downloads on the command line with "aria2c"
aria2 is a Linux / Mac OS X / Windows command line utility that can download files concurrently from multiple HTTP(S) / FTP / BitTorrent sources. While the utility is running, each downloading file is adaptively split into multiple segments with varying segment sizes based on server response times.
It continually trims out slow servers and favors faster ones, and if a file’s sources contain both HTTP(S) / FTP and BitTorrent URIs, content downloaded through HTTP(S) / FTP will be uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm.
Synopsis:
aria2c [OPTIONS] [URL | TORRENT_FILE | METALINK_FILE]…
Usage examples
Download a file via HTTP with the default settings:
aria2c http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/
content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-5779.20081120.Pt5yH/
iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw
Download a file via HTTP with 4 parallel download streams (segments):
aria2c -j4 http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/
content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-5779.
20081120.Pt5yH/iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw
Download a file via HTTP using a list of URIs to the same file and 4 parallel download streams (segments), using 3 URIs at a time:
aria2c -j4 -s3 -i links.txt
Download a file via BitTorrent using 4 parallel download streams (segments) and a download / upload limit of 20KB per second:
aria2c -j4 --max-download-limit=20K --max-upload-limit=20K
PwnageTool_2.2.1.dmg.4527959.TPB.torrent
The aria2 man page can be read here, and the utility can be downloaded here.
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