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A fairly big update to the script, I've added several new features:

• Notifications via libnotify


• Download History


• Reprioritization via move, up, and down commands


• Added the ability to add multiple urls at once


• Added the ability to skip a download via CTRL+C (moves it to end of queue)


• -f option for custom queue.txt at command line


• -c option for custom .dqcfg at command line

Get the updated script here: Download Queue v0.2

If some of the new code seems a little hack-ish just remember, I'm still learning.

Next on the agenda:

• Figure out how to account for wget getting 404, 503, etc, while still providing real-time output to the command line.

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Download Queue v0.2 Available!

See this blog post for details: Download Queue (DQ) v0.2
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I've been spending more and more time at the Linux command line lately and have been looking at ways of improving the experience, customizing and personalizing it. At the same time, I've been using it as an opportunity to learn new languages, one of those being bash.

I've used bash in a very simplistic way ever since I first got Linux, simple one-off commands here and there, aliases, .bashrc, etc., but I only recently decided to take a serious, in-depth look at it. I've been reading tutorials here and there, studied up a bit on common useful commands, but in order to really get to know a language you have to use it, so that's what I'm doing.

Download Queue (DQ) v0.1b