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Created November 27, 2015 16:40 — forked from lox/mirror_test.sh
A bash script to select the fastest ubuntu apt geo-mirror
#!/bin/bash -e
# mirror_test.sh
# benchmarks closest ubuntu mirrors and outputs them in speed order
# bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/lox/9152137/raw/mirror_test.sh)"
RELEASE=$(lsb_release -c -s 2>/dev/null || echo 14.04)
MIRRORS=$(curl -s http://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt)
TESTFILE="dists/$RELEASE/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2"
TIMEOUT=1