Just when I thought wget is powerful and user-friendly, it has a limitation of not able to download files larger than 2GB. Curl is a better choice if I need to download DVD iso image of Linux packages which usually have a file size of around 3.3 GB. The command string looks a bit strange at first, but it is really not difficult to remember, just think of the -o as output to a file instead of output to stdout :
#curl -o linux-dvd.iso http://www.xyz.org/linux-dvd.iso
In fact, I have been troubled by this limitation of wget for many years.
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