git-annex-5.20150522: man/git-annex-addurl.1

.TH git-annex-addurl 1
.SH NAME
git-annex-addurl \- add urls to annex
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.SH SYNOPSIS
git annex addurl \fB[url ...]\fP
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.SH DESCRIPTION
Downloads each url to its own file, which is added to the annex.
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When \fBquvi\fP is installed, urls are automatically tested to see if they
point to a video hosting site, and the video is downloaded instead.
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Urls to torrent files (including magnet links) will cause the content of
the torrent to be downloaded, using \fBaria2c\fP.
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Normally the filename is based on the full url, so will look like
"www.example.com_dir_subdir_bigfile". In some cases, addurl is able to
come up with a better filename based on other information. Options can also
be used to get better filenames.
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.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB\-\-fast\fP"
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Avoid immediately downloading the url.
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.IP "\fB\-\-relaxed\fP"
Avoid storing the size of the url's content, and accept whatever
content is there at a future point. (Implies \fB\-\-fast\fP.)
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.IP "\fB\-\-raw\fP"
Prevent special handling of urls by quvi, bittorrent, and other
special remotes. This will for example, make addurl
download the .torrent file and not the contents it points to.
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.IP "\fB\-\-file=name\fP"
Use with a filename that does not yet exist to add a new file
with the specified name and the content downloaded from the url.
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If the file already exists, addurl will record that it can be downloaded
from the specified url(s).
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.IP "\fB\-\-pathdepth=N\fP"
This causes a shorter filename to be used. For example,
\fB\-\-pathdepth=1\fP will use "dir/subdir/bigfile",
while \fB\-\-pathdepth=3\fP will use "bigfile". 
.IP
It can also be negative; \fB\-\-pathdepth=\-2\fP will use the last
two parts of the url.
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.SH SEE ALSO
git-annex(1)
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.SH AUTHOR
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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