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wget

The smaller brother of curl, but it can do more than just download.

But i will limit this chapter to one feature i only later discovered.

resume download

You can continue a download also after you started a download the normal way.

continue
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wget https://az792536.vo.msecnd.net/vms/VMBuild_20180102/VirtualBox/IE11/IE11.Win7.VirtualBox.zip
IE11.Win7.VirtualBo  90%[++++++++++++++++=>  ]   4,44G  1,66MB/s    eta 4m 24
# CTRL-C
wget -c https://az792536.vo.msecnd.net/vms/VMBuild_20180102/VirtualBox/IE11/IE11.Win7.VirtualBox.zip
IE11.Win7.VirtualBo  94%[++++++++++++++++++> ]   4,64G  3,97MB/s    eta 80s

Just add the -c (continue option). It will continue where it left off. I presume all the data needed for that is contained in the file :

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IE11.Win7.VirtualBox.zip.crdownload

Which is present while the download is busy.