# this library works like a wrapper around wget, to allow downloads to be cached # so that if later the same url is retrieved, the entry from the cache will be # returned. pushd `dirname $0` &>/dev/null cache_dir="$(pwd)/cache" popd &>/dev/null # to clear the entire cache, recommended at beginning and end of scripts that call it clear_cache () { rm -rf "${cache_dir}" } # creates an empty cache, should be called once before downloading anything function create_cache () { mkdir "${cache_dir}" touch "${cache_dir}/urls.list" } # download method - you pass a filename to save the file under, and the url to call cached_download () { local output_file="${1}" local url="${2}" if fgrep -x "${url}" "${cache_dir}/urls.list" >/dev/null; then echo "Retrieving '${url}' from cache..." local line_number="$(fgrep -nx "${url}" "${cache_dir}/urls.list" | sed 's/:.*//')" cp "${cache_dir}/obj_$(printf "%05d\n" "${line_number}").cache" "${output_file}" else echo "Downloading '${url}' and placing in cache..." rm -f "${output_file}" $retry wget -O "${output_file}" --progress=dot:mega --server-response "${url}" 2>&1 local exit_code=$? if [ "${exit_code}" == 0 ]; then echo "${url}" >> "${cache_dir}/urls.list" local line_number="$(fgrep -nx "${url}" "${cache_dir}/urls.list" | sed 's/:.*//')" cp "${output_file}" "${cache_dir}/obj_$(printf "%05d\n" "${line_number}").cache" else return "${exit_code}" fi fi }