Index: usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 =================================================================== --- usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 +++ usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 @@ -384,6 +384,51 @@ argument is used and the remote file is not newer than the specified file then the command will still return success, although no file is transferred. +.Sh EXAMPLES +Silently try to fetch the URLs passed as parameters. +The first one will fail. +If the second URL succeeds the third one will not be tried: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ fetch -1 -q https://www.freebsd.org/bad.html \\ + ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT \\ + https://www.fake.url +fetch: https://www.freebsd.org/bad.html: Not Found +.Ed +.Pp +Be verbose when retrieving the +.Ql README.TXT +file: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ fetch -v ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT +resolving server address: ftp.freebsd.org:80 +requesting http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT +local size / mtime: 4259 / 1431015519 +remote size / mtime: 4259 / 1431015519 +README.TXT 4259 B 44 MBps 00s +.Ed +.Pp +Quietly save the +.Ql README.TXT file as +.Ql myreadme.txt +and do not delete the output file under any circumstances: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +fetch -o myreadme.txt -q -R ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT +.Ed +.Pp +Print the size of the requested file and identify the request with a custom user +agent string: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ fetch -s ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT +--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101" +3513231 +.Ed +.Pp +Restart the transfer of the +.Ql README.TXT +file and retry the transfer upon soft failures: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ fetch -a -r http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT +.Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr fetch 3 , .Xr phttpget 8