Posted on 2007-10-26
At work we have a slower (1.1 Mbps) internet connection and I don't want to hog it when I need to download a big file. Fortunately, curl has a --limit-rate option. For example (should be one line):
curl --verbose --output bigfile.tar.gz --limit-rate 3000 http://download.example.com/bigfile.tar.gz
Tags: curl download