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nerdess
nerdess

Reputation: 10920

Resuming curl download that goes through some bash script

I am trying to download a huge file via curl. As far as I can see it there is some bash script hooked in between to deliver the correct file (in that case a virtual machine that runs IE10):

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS=10 bash

Due to a wobbly internet connection the download fails constantly so I need a way to resume the download at its current position. I've tried resuming the download like so:

curl -s -C - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS=10 bash

However, all I get is some MD5 check failed error...am I missing something?

curl not resuming download due to md5 check fail

Upvotes: 0

Views: 450

Answers (1)

Jordan Running
Jordan Running

Reputation: 106027

The curl command you're running there doesn't download the VM images. It downloads a bash script called ievms.sh and then pipes the script to bash, which executes it.

Looking at the script, it looks like the file it downloads for IE10 is here:

http://virtualization.modern.ie/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VirtualBox/OSX/IE10_Win8.zip

I think if you download that file (you could use your browser or curl) and put it in ~/.ievms, and then run the command again, it should see that the file has already been downloaded and finish the installation.

If the partially-downloaded file is already there, then you could resume that download with this command:

curl -L "http://virtualization.modern.ie/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VirtualBox/OSX/IE10_Win8.zip" \
  -C - -o ~/.ievms/IE10_Win8.zip

(Then run the original IEVMs curl command to finish installation.)

Upvotes: 2

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