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wget loop

Have a small scipt a friend made for running wget to pull down a file.

can someone explain what the varible here is actually doing, seems to just be keeping the loop going, what's the difference here in using this loop with wget and
just using a straight command to start wget such as

/usr/bin/wget -r -c -N -l 1 http://server.com/tmp/file1.gz

#!/bin/sh
X=1
while [ $X = 1 ]
do
/usr/bin/wget -r -c -N -l 1 http://server.com/tmp/file1.gz
done

Thanks,

ahoffmann

yes, the while is an infinite loop

ozo

Did you want to set $X depending on the result of the wget?

bt707

ASKER

just wanted to verify that the while loop here was set just to be a infinite loop as ahoffmann said.

used this once to pull a big file to a remote server that has very bad bandwith and connections, worked out good. Just looking for a good way to run wget in a case like this where
connections are dropped and restarted sometimes, also where the command can be started then the session closed and reopened at a later time to check on the job.

Thanks,

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bt707

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thanks ahoffmann, I'll try this out, the wget works really good, I couldn't even kill it witout a kill, did try out a few test and even when killing it
then restarting it picks up right where it left off, very nice, will look into the curl also, never heard of it.

Thanks again.