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Exercise

Creating wait time using Wget

For download smaller files, enforcing a mandatory wait time between file downloads makes sure we don't overload the server with too many requests. Here, we will using the built in option flag with wget to create a mandatory wait time (in seconds) between downloading each file stored in the URL list file.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Create a mandatory 1 second pause between downloading all files in url_list.txt.