proz1

Usage

Overview

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

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

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.