Aria2 shell script and batch file

I wrote a BASH shell script and a DOS batch file that can be used to download files using aria2 — Aria2 is a command-line tool for downloading files. The script and the batch file take 2 arguments; the first one is for the bittorrent hash in 40-digit hexadecimal number and the second one is for arbitrary one-word description.

• aria2.bat
  
• aria2.sh
  

aria2.bat can be used on Windows, and aria2.sh can be used on Linux and *BSD. Make sure that aria2c is in PATH. For example, if you want to download an ISO file for the OpenSUSE DVD, you would type something like:

aria2.bat 198472f5217d843cceb1a4c82233f009ed6608af opensuse-dvd-586

To find the value of a bittorrent hash (that long hex number), you can cut it from a magnet link you find on a Web site — Magnet links allow you to download actual files without first having to download bittorrent files (*.torrent). When you see a magnet sign, right-click on it to display the shortcut menu and select Copy Link Location.

Then, paste it somewhere, for example, inside the URL address bar. The hash value comes after the btih: string.

After you find the bittorrent hash, use it as the first argument to the script and make up anything for the second argument, as shown in the example above.

Bittorrent Info Hash Values for Windows 8 ISO

Windows 8 ISO files have the following BTIH hash values. Use them with my aria2 script to download Windows 8.

1. en_windows_8_x86_dvd_915417.iso
   
   C5D92B32277685436DEDE9957B80083D26062C03
   
2. en_windows_8_x64_dvd_915440.iso
   
   144C7E2B46103FF84F83A1E6A12D66B740F00CF6
   

Download Linux Kernel 3.5.4 / 3.6.0

I am sharing my kernel builds for Linux 3.5.4 and 3.6.0. Hope it works for everyone.

• linux360-586mmx.zip
  
• linux354-586mmx.zip
  

To Build Transmission-Daemon for Windows

Transmission is a free bittorrent application available on Linux. It is a pretty neat tool compared to other bittorrent software. It is possible to compile and use Transmission on Windows, thanks to Cygwin. First, install Cygwin using the Cygwin installer(setup.exe). I set the Root directory to C:\Cygwin and chose to install the following packages in addition to base packages.

• bison
  
• gettext-devel
  
• libtool
  
• make
  
• binutils
  
• gcc4-g++
  
• patch
  
• pkg-config
  

Compile zlib.

./configure --prefix=/usr --static
make
cp -iv zconf.h zlib.h /usr/include
cp -iv libz.a /usr/lib

Build OpenSSL.

./Configure -DHAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC -lz -lpthread threads zlib --prefix=/usr cygwin
make
make install

Build CURL.

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared --with-ssl --with-ca-bundle=ca-bundle.crt
make
make install

Compile libevent.

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make 
make install

Lastly, build transmission.

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared --enable-static --disable-nls --without-gtk CPPFLAGS=-DHAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC
make
make install

If you get snprintf error with libutp, insert the following line into utp.cpp:

extern int snprintf(char *, size_t, const char *, ...);

Compile Aria2 1.15.2 with MinGW

Aria2 is a command-line download utility. It can be used to download files quickly from http(s), ftp, bittorrent, magnet and metalink locations. I prefer this handy tool over other programs, such as Free Download Manager and Frostwire because it's lean, fast and full of features. It took me a couple of days to compile Aria2 with all the features available. The following step-by-step guide will help you build your own aria2 program (aria2c.exe) the way I did.

1. Install MinGW
   

   Follow one of the following guides to install MingW:

   
   
   • Setting up MinGW64 with Cygwin
     
   • Installing MinGW on Windows
   
   
   
2. POSIX Threads
   

   Download the source for Pthreads library (pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.tar.gz) and compile it like this:

   
   

   make clean GC-static
   cp pthread.h semaphore.h sched.h /mingw/include/
   cp libpthreadGC2.a /mingw/lib/libpthread.a

   
   
   
3. zlib
   

   Zlib is needed by the OpenSSL library below. Download the zlib source and compile it like this:

   
   

   make -f win32/Makefile.gcc
   make -f win32/Makefile.gcc install BINARY_PATH=/mingw/bin INCLUDE_PATH=/mingw/include LIBRARY_PATH=/mingw/lib

   
   
   
4. OpenSSL
   

   Aria2 requires either GnuTLS or OpenSSL for secure transfers. In this guide, OpenSSL is chosen over GnuTLS. Use 7-zip to unpack the tarball because it contains symbolic links.

   
   

   ./Configure -DHAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC -DPTW32_STATIC_LIB -L/mingw/lib -lz -lpthread -lws2_32 --prefix=/mingw threads zlib mingw
   make
   make install

   
   
   

5. Expat

   
   

   Aria2 can use either LibXML2 or Expat for XML parsing. In this guide, Expat will be used. Download the expat source and compile expat like this:

   
   

   ./configure --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared --enable-static
   make 
   make install

   
   
   

6. C-Ares

   
   

   C-Ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and resolves DNS names asynchronously. Download the C-ares source from c-ares.haxx.se and unpack it. Then, compile C-Ares as follows:

   
   

   ./configure --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared CPPFLAGS='-I/mingw/include -DCARES_STATICLIB'
   make
   make install

   
   
   

7. SQLite 3

   
   

   Download the SQLite source (sqlite-amalgamation-3071300.zip) and build SQLite 3:

   
   

   gcc -O2 -DNDEBUG=1 -DTHREADSAFE=1 -c *.c
   ar ru /mingw/lib/libsqlite3.a sqlite3.o
   cp -iv *.h /mingw/include

   
   

   Create sqlite3.pc and put it in /mingw/lib/pkgconfig.

   
   

   prefix=/mingw
   exec_prefix=${prefix}
   libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
   includedir=${prefix}/include
   
   Name: SQLite
   Description: SQL database engine
   Version: 3.5
   
   Libs: -L${libdir} -lsqlite3
   Cflags: -I${includedir}

   
   
   

8. aria2c

   
   

   Finally, we are ready to compile Aria2. Download the Aria2 source from aria2.sf.net and unpack the source. Then, configure aria2 as follows:

   
   

   ./configure --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads=posix --with-ca-bundle=ca-bundle.crt --disable-nls LIBS='-lpthread -lws2_32 -lcares -lz' CPPFLAGS='-DPTW32_STATIC_LIB -DCARES_STATICLIB'
   

   
   
   
   
   

   Then, issue the following commands to compile Aria2:

   
   

   make
   make install

   
   
   
9. Optionally, strip and compress the executable aria2c.exe.
   
   

   strip aria2c.exe
   upx --best --strip-relocs=0 aria2c.exe

   
   

To download my Windows builds of aria2, go here.

Aria2c Usage

aria2c --file-allocation=prealloc ftp://192.168.1.64/pardus.iso

If aria2 aborts a download due to a connection error, you can resume the download any time using aria2c like this:

aria2c -c ftp://192.168.1.64/pardus.iso

To download files from URL's written in a file urls.txt to a folder Downloads, run aria2 as follows. The urls.txt should contain one download per line with URL's seperated by a tab:

aria2c -i urls.txt -d Downloads

To build wget.exe with MinGW

wget is a useful command-line downloader. To build wget for the Windows platform, first install MinGW. Then, compile zlib, openssl and wget in that order. To compile zlib:

make -f win32/Makefile.gcc
cp -iv zlib1.dll /mingw/bin
cp -iv zconf.h zlib.h /mingw/include
cp -iv libz.a /mingw/lib
cp -iv libz.dll.a /mingw/lib

To compile openssl:

./Configure -DHAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC -DPTW32_STATIC_LIB -L/mingw/lib -lz -lpthreadGC2 -lws2_32 --prefix=/mingw threads zlib mingw
make
make test
make install

Now, build wget

./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads=win32 --disable-nls --with-ssl=openssl
make
make install

Transmission-Daemon for Windows

Here are my Windows builds of transmission-daemon. I built it with Cygwin's GCC compiler. 7-zip or a newest version of unzip should be used to unpack them.

• transmission-2.60-win32.zip
  
• transmission-2.42-win32.zip

The package contains the following files:

• Cygwin1.dll
  
  Cygwin Unix layer


• transmission-cli.exe
  
  Command-line Bittorrent Client


• transmission-create.exe
  
  Create .torrent files


• transmission-daemon.exe
  
  Transmission server


• transmission-edit.exe
  
  Edit .torrent files


• transmission-remote.exe
  
  Control the transmission daemon


• transmission-show.exe
  
  Show .torrent contents

Unpack the package into a folder, for example, C:\Program Files\Transmission. Then, create a shortcut with the following command:

transmission-daemon -b -o -m -ep -a 127.0.0.1,192.168.*.* --utp

Double-clicking the shortcut will not open any window. However, transmission-daemon is silently running in the background. You can control the daemon with any Web browser by opening this local Web address:

http://127.0.0.1:9091/

Although you can control transmission-daemon with a Web browser, it's not a pretty thing to do so. I recommend using transmission-remote-dotnet or transmission-remote-gui. The following is a screenshot for Transmission Remote .NET which is written in C#.



And, below you can see Transmission Remote GUI that's written in Pascal.

The settings for the daemon are stored in the ~/.config/transmission-daemon folder. Make sure the HOME environment variable points correctly to your folder.

Also, TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME environment variable should be correctly set up to use the web browser interface.

To learn how to build transmission-daemon for Windows, read this post.

Compile wxDownload Fast for Windows

I once used wxDownload Fast as a tool for getting something off the Web quickly. But it crashes every once in a while. So I stopped using it long ago. Now I am compiling wxDownload Fast only to test my static wxMSW library.

I am using MinGW GCC compiler to build wxDownload Fast. I downloaded the source for wxDownload Fast. I unpacked the source and configured it:

tar xzvf wxdfast_0.6.0.tar.gz
cd wxdfast-0.6.0/
./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-win32build

I got some errors during the final linking stage. I had to modify src/Makefile to fix the errors. The end of Makefile was modified.

wxDFast.res: wxDFast.rc
 windres -i $< -J rc -O coff -o $@ --include-dir=/mingw/include/wx-2.8

The other fix involves linking with expat because my wxMSW library depends on expat.

wxdfast$(EXEEXT): $(wxdfast_OBJECTS) $(wxdfast_DEPENDENCIES) 
 @rm -f wxdfast$(EXEEXT)
 $(CXXLINK) $(wxdfast_LDFLAGS) $(wxdfast_OBJECTS) $(wxdfast_LDADD) $(LIBS) -lexpat

Then, I started make.

make
make install

I double-clicked wxdfast and it started alright. The following files are installed onto the system (under the MinGW folder).

./bin/wxdfast.exe
./share/applications/wxdfast.desktop
./share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/wxDFast.mo
./share/man/man1/wxdfast.1
./share/man/pt_BR/man1/wxdfast.1
./share/pixmaps/wxdfast.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/icon/dfast48x48.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/icon/wxdfast.ico
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/icon/wxdfast.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/license.txt
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/logo/about.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/about.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/completed.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/copydata.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/copyurl.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/details.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/downloading.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/error.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/find.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/graph.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/help.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/new.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/options.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/pasteurl.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/pause.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/progressbar.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/properties.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/quit.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/remove.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/schedule.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/scheduled.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/start.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/startall.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/stop.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/menubar/stopall.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/preview/ripstop.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/preview/wxdownloads_small.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/readme.txt
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/svg/ripstop.svg
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/svg/wxdownloads_small.svg
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_info.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_move_down.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_move_up.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_new.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_remove.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_schedule.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_start.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_start_all.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_stop.png
./share/wxdfast/RipStop/toolbar/download_stop_all.png
./share/wxdfast/boxabout.xrc
./share/wxdfast/boxnew.xrc
./share/wxdfast/boxoptions.xrc
./share/wxdfast/images.xrc
./share/wxdfast/mainwindow.xrc
./share/wxdfast/menubar.xrc
./share/wxdfast/toolbar.xrc
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/close.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/down.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/new.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/properties.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/remove.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/schedule.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/start.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/startall.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/stop.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/stopall.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/big/up.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/error.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/exit.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/graph.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/new.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/noresume.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/ok.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/options.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/paste.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/progress.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/properties.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/queue.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/remove.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/resume.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/schedule.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/start.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/startall.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/stop.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/stopall.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/small/wxdfast.xpm
./share/wxdfast/xpm/wxdfast.ico
./share/wxdfast/xpm/wxdfast.xpm

Tools for Downloading Stuff from the Internet

You can get a variety of software, music and movies from the Internet. Some of them are legally okay to download like open-source software and free publications, but there are things you're not legally allowed to download, such as most music and movies. However, with the increasing availability of high-speed Internet and P2P software, the Internet is exponentially growing in the number of downloadable stuff.

There are so many software for downloading stuff from the Net, but only a few good ones are listed here.

• amule
  
  Multi-platform program for downloading from ed2k or Kad networks.
  
• aria2
  
  Command-line tool for downloading from Web, FTP, Bittorrent and Metalinks. Very Light , Fast and Efficient.
  
• eMule
  
  Old-school ed2k client for downloading from eDonkey or Kademlia networks.
  
• Frostwire
  
  Limewire clone that allows you to download from Gnutella or Bittorrent network.
  
• gtk-gnutella
  
  Open-source Linux/*BSD client for Gnutella network.
  
• HalogenWare Retriever
  
  Java software for downloading from HTTP, FTP, Bittorrent and Metalinks.
  
• MLDonkey and Sancho
  
  Yet another eDonkey client
  
• Phex
  
  Gnutella client that keeps getting better
  
• Transmission bittorrent client
  
  I like to compile transmission-daemon and use it with a GUI frontend, such as transmission-remote-gui
  and transmission-remote-dotnet.
  
• wxDownload Fast
  
  simple wxWidgets application that lets you quickly download from FTP and HTTP. Read my guide to compiling it here.

Once you have P2P software installed, you'll want to know more about how to search for files on the Internet. The following is a list of search engines for P2P users.

• Mininova is a torrent search engine I found in the Alexa global 500 list.
  
• Torrentz meta-search engine
  
• Filehash is a search engine for eMule users.
  

Download X.org Server 1.6.5 for Linux

Here you can download my build of X.org 1.6.5 for Linux. I didn't bother to pack it in a RPM or DEB package. However, the installation is simple. Just use tar and bzip2 to extract it at /.

cd /
bzip2 -dc xorg165.tar.bz2 | tar xf -

Everything will be extracted into /usr/local. This package contains X.org core server plus Intel, kbd and mouse driver along with pixman, libdrm2, Mesa OpenGL libraries. After installation, remember to run ldconfig as root.

Downloading Windows Vista ISO

Microsoft often releases samples of its flagship programs to its MSDN members. Among the software samples released to MSDN members are a series of Windows Vista editions. Some of these copies are leaked to P2P networks like BitTorrent or eDonkey. Below is a list of Windows Vista ISO images including those released to MSDN members:

Language	Filename	32-bit Links	64-bit Links
Chinese Traditional 繁體中文	tw windows vista x86 dvd X12-59649.iso Windows Vista x86 32位元系統繁體中文正式授權製造商裝機版.ISO (2,577,250,304 bytes)	1
English	Windows Vista All-in-One RTM build 6000.16386.061101-2205_x86Fre_Client Lrmcfre_En_DVD.iso (2,678,614,016 bytes)	1, 2
	Windows Vista English Service Pack 2 6002.18005.090410-1830_x86fre_Client_en-us-FRTMCFRE_EN_DVD.iso	1
Korean 한글	Windows Vista X86 DVD X12-59647 vista.rtm.kor.iso (2,591,459,328 bytes)	1

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• Tools for Downloading Stuff from the Internet
  
• Resizing a Windows Vista partition with ntfsresize
  
• Using GParted To Create Dual-Boot Vista Partitions
  
• Installing Korean Windows Vista
  
• Test Driving Taiwanese Windows Vista (Chinese Traditional)
  

Statistics eBooks

Statistics is becoming important in today's business. It is used to analyze data so that we can make predictions and better decisions. Many business courses require you to study statistics. Like many other reference books, statistics textbooks can be found in P2P networks. The following ebooks help you learn statistics and can be downloaded with eMule.

1. McGraw Hill - Statistics and Econometrics (Schaum's Outline)
   
2. A First Course in Business Statistics, 8th ed. (James T.McClave, P.George Benson, Terry Sincich)
   
3. Business Statistics Demystified
   
4. John Wiley And Sons Statistics For Dummies
   
5. Matrix Differential Calculus With Applications In Statistics And Econometrics (Wiley, 3Rd Edition, 2007)
   
6. Knalbunt - Handbook of Computational Statistics - 2004 [Springer]
   
7. Mathematical Statistics (1999)
   
8. Advanced Calculus With Applications In Statistics (A Khuri 2003, Wiley)
   
9. Matrix differential calculus with applications in statistics and econometrics 3e JAN R. MAGNUS (Wiley 2007 468s)
   
10. Regression Analysis by Example, 4th Ed (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) - Samprit Chatterjee Ali S. Hadi (2008)
    

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• Calculus eBooks
  

Calculus eBooks

Like many other reference books, calculus textbooks can be found in P2P networks. The following ebooks help you learn calculus and can be downloaded with eMule.

1. Taylor Angus - Advanced Calculus - 3Rd Edition - [749] Pages - 1983 - Wiley
   
2. Thomas Calculus 11e
   
3. Thomas Calculus 11e [Solutions] indexed
   
4. Calculus 5th Edition - James Stewart solution
   
5. Calculus Concepts and Contexts 2nd Ed - James Stewart
   
6. Edwards, Harnold M. - Advanced Calculus. A Differential Forms Approach (1969)(T) (452s)
   
7. Calculus Workbook For Dummies 2005
   
8. Krantz S.G. Calculus demystified (MGH, 2003) (356s)
   
9. Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Advanced Calculus
   
10. Schaums Calculus 5th ed.
    
11. Stewart - Calculus - Early Transcendentals 6e HQ (Thomson, 2008)
    
12. Stewart's Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Fifth Edition
    
13. Tom Apostol - Calculus vol.1 - One-variable Calculus, with an Introduction to Linear Algebra (1975)
    
14. Tom Apostol - Calculus Vol.2 - Multi-Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra with Applications to DifFerential Equations and Probability
    

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• Statistics eBooks
  
  In this post, you'll find some Calculus texts that contain statistics material.