4th December 2014

Pause and resume CURL request from the command line

John Ennew
Technical Director

If you are downloading a large file with curl like this ...

curl http://www.example.com/some-massive-file.zip -O some-massive-file.zip

When the day ends and you have to go home with still more downloading to do.

Just hit Control-C to kill the curl command, go home then type this in to resume:

curl -C - http://www.example.com/some-massive-file.zip -O some-massive-file.zip

You’re welcome.