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A light Unix download accelerator

Axel does the same thing any other accelerator does: it opens more than one HTTP/FTP connection per download and each connection transfers its own, separate, part of the file. It may sound weird, but it works very well in practice.

Version: 2.17.14 License: (GPL-2+ or OpenSSLException) GitHub
Maintainers i0ntempest
Categories net www
Homepage https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel
Platforms darwin
Variants
  • universal (Build for multiple architectures)

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