Axel of multi-threaded download tools

• Axel is a Linux platform under a http/ftp tell download tool, support multi-threading and breakpoint continuation, for some speed limit of the server on the load, Axel speed is significantly faster than wget

Fedora 23+ Installation

Dnf-y Intsall Axel

CentOS 7.x Installation

The CentOS Yum is originally not included in the Axel package, and if you want to use it you need to add Epel extension

Yum-y Install epel-release yum-y Install axle

Parameters and how to use them

Usage: Axel [option] Address 1 [Address 2] [address ...]
Options:
-S X Specify maximum rate (Bytes/sec)
-N x Specifies the maximum number of connections
-o f Specify local output file
-S [x] search for images and download from X server
-N Do not use any proxy server
-Q using the output simple information mode
-V More status information
-A Text progress indicator
-H Help Information
-V Version Information

If I want to download the latest version of the Thunderbird binary package from Thunderbird's official website, then we can use Axel to download
After we've got the execution

Axel-n 10-a https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/releases/45.2.0/linux-x86_64/zh-CN/ thunderbird-45.2.0.tar.bz2

Axel will download the Thunderbird according to the 10 threads I set up, I download the maximum speed of 600kb/s through Chrome browser, when using Axel download, the speed reached 1.2mb/s (my maximum bandwidth)

If the download process is interrupted unexpectedly, you can resume the download by performing the same download command again

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Axel of multi-threaded download tools