You're downloading a big 1GB SQL file with Chrome. It stalls at 120mb. Ok, you try again. Looks like it's working this time. Thirty minutes later... stalls at 800mb. You are pulling your hair out.
wget --continue to the rescue!
Assumptions:
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Using `wget --continue` to resume broken downloads from Google Chrome
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FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.
- By Edmond Lau
- Highly Recommended 👍
- http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/
Among computer programmers, a “gotcha” has become a term for a feature of a programming language that is likely to play tricks on you to display behavior that is different than what you expect.
Just as a fly or a mosquito can “bite” you, we say that a gotcha can “bite” you. So, let's proceed to examine some of Python's gotchas !
