Multi-threaded Download tool under Linux: Axel

Wget should be the most commonly used download tool, but it does not support multi-threaded downloads.

Axel Installation

The Epel source has a Axel binary package that can be installed using Yum.

yum install epel-releaseyum install axel

Axel How to use

Syntax :axel [OPTIONS] url1 [url2,url3,...]

OPTIONS:

--max-speed=x, -s x : 设定最大下载速度.--num-connections=x, -n x : 设定并发下载数--output=x, -o x ： 设定下载文件存储目录--header=x, -H x : 添加 http 头部--user-agent=x, -U x : 设定访问客户端--search[=x], -S[x] :  在 filesearching.com 上搜索所下载文件的镜像地址，并对这些镜像进行测速，选择最快的镜像地址进行下载. 这个选项的存在会占用一定的时间.

Example

For example, I'm going to open 10 threads to download Zookeeper's package to/USR/SRC:

axel -n 10 -o /usr/src  http://apache.claz.org/zookeeper/stable/zookeeper-3.4.10.tar.gz

Multi-threaded Download tool under Linux: Axel