wget file piece

[mr_mac]

How can I download just a piece of a file using wget? Is ti possible? I have looked some man pages and I found nothing interesting...
Any idea?

To explain it better: I have a 2 GB file but I just want to download it from 500 mg to 1gb

[drl]

Hi.

Welcome to the forum.

If you don't mind using a different command, curl has this ability:

       -r/--range <range>
              (HTTP/FTP/FILE)  Retrieve  a byte range (i.e a partial document)
              from a HTTP/1.1, FTP server or a local FILE. Ranges can be spec-
              ified in a number of ways.

              0-499     specifies the first 500 bytes

              500-999   specifies the second 500 bytes

-- excerpt from man curl q.v.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

[mr_mac]

Thanks...

What I am trying to accomplish is a parallel download of a file. I want to download a file in multiple slices. Do you known if there is a script or code for this using curl or wget?
I have already found “axel” and other programs, but I wanted to do this with a built in function.