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I love, Love, LOVE the Linux wget command!

 

I do. I absolutely love it. Granted, I think it's a security threat because it lacks another layer of user authentication like an SSH or FTP transfer, but for sheer super-convenience, it's the best.

To set up my Hercules/MVS 3.8j mainframe emulation, instead of going through the hassle of an FPT upload or a SSH session from a Linux file explorer session, I just type:

 $wget http://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/tk4-_v1.00_current.zip 

and life is good. It's just that easy. Then open it up with unzip, do all the usual stuff you want to do with it, and be done with the transfer.



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