.TH EEEPGET 1 "February 5, 2014" "" "Eepget - I2P Downloader"

.SH NAME
Eepget \- I2P downloader

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B eepget
.RI [ options ] URL
.br

.SH DESCRIPTION
.P
Download a file non-interactively via HTTP. Transfers through both I2P and the
regular Internet are supported.
.P
Eepget is able to cope with slow or unstable network connections; if a download
is not successful because of a network problem, it will keep retrying until the
whole file has been retrieved (by default up to three times).  If supported by
the remote server, eepget will instruct the server to continue the download
from the point of interruption.

.SH OPTIONS
.B
\fB\-c\fR
.TP
Clearnet. Do not use a proxy. Same as \fB\-p\fR :0 .
.TP

.B
\fB\-e\fR etag
.TP
Sets the etag value in the request headers.
.TP

.B
\fB\-h\fR name=value
.TP
Adds an arbitrary request header with the given name and value.
.TP

.B
\fB\-l\fR lineLen
.TP
Controls the progress display. \fB\ lineLen \fP is the length of one progress line in characters. The default is 40.
.TP

.B
\fB\-m\fR markSize
.TP
Controls the progress display. \fB\ markSize \fP is the number of bytes one '#' character represents. The default is 1024.
.TP

.B
\fB\-n\fR retries
.TP
Specify the number of times to retry downloading if the download isn't successful. If this option is not specified, eepget will retry downloading the file 5 times.
.TP

.B
\fB\-o\fR file
.TP
Sets the output file to write to. If this option is not given, the output filename will be determined by the URL.
.TP

.B
\fB\-p\fR proxy_host[:port]
.TP
Specify an I2P proxy server (eeproxy) to use. If the port is not specified, eepget will use 4444. If this option is not specified, eepget will use 127.0.0.1:4444. Specify \fB\-c\fR or \fB\-p\fR :0 to disable the eeproxy.
.TP

.B
\fB\-t\fR seconds
.TP
Sets the inactivity timeout. The default is 60 seconds.
.TP

.B
\fB\-u\fR username
.TP
Sets the username for proxy authorization, if required.
.TP

.B
\fB\-x\fR password
.TP
Sets the password for proxy authorization, if required. If a username is specified but not a password, EepGet will prompt for the password.
.TP

.SH EXIT STATUS

.B eepget
exits with status zero upon successful transfer and non-zero if there were problems with the download.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

curl(1) wget(1)