Ubuntu – Any recommendations for a command-line download manager

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Any command-line download accelerator/manager recommendations for Ubuntu 11.04? I tried some programs like

  1. Axel
  2. wget/curl

I wanted to know if there are any command-line download managers which have a "resume download" feature.

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1st download:

 axel -a -n 10 http://yui.zenfs.com/theater/f2esummit2011-tso.mp4
 Initializing download:
 http://yui.zenfs.com/theater/f2esummit2011-tso.mp4 File size:
 316943546 bytes Opening output file f2esummit2011-tso.mp4 State file
 found: 5412634 bytes downloaded, 311530912 to go. Starting download

 Connection 1 unexpectedly closed                                      
 ] Connection 2 unexpectedly closed                                    
 ] Connection 9 unexpectedly closed                                    
 ] Connection 6 unexpectedly closed                                    
 ] Connection 8 unexpectedly closed                                    
 ] Connection 3 unexpectedly closed                                    
 ] Connection 5 unexpectedly closed                                    
 ] [  6%] [0    1    2    3    4    5    6     7    8    9   ] [ 
 58.3KB/s] [ 1h22]

This is what I did: I ran two simultaneous downloads. But with Axel, I'm getting the below error:
Segmentation Error

2nd download:

axel -v -a -n -10 http://yui.zenfs.com/theater/f2esummit2011-glass.mp4
Initializing download: http://yui.zenfs.com/theater/f2esummit2011-glass.mp4
Segmentation fault

Best Answer

wget, that is installed by default, has such a feature through the -c option:

   -c
   --continue
       Continue getting a partially-downloaded file.  This is useful when
       you want to finish up a download started by a previous instance of
       Wget, or by another program.

       ...

       Note that -c only works with FTP servers and with HTTP servers that
       support the "Range" header.
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