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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Erik Kastner -- eznews speed downloader. Make sure u have axel (http://freshmeat.net/projects/axel/)
# You also need to have two envrionment variables set (EZNEWS_USER and EZNEWS_PASS)
# I just toss them in .eznews_creds and source it from .bash_profile

url = ARGV[0]
user = ENV["EZNEWS_USER"]
pass = ENV["EZNEWS_PASS"]

raise "You must supply a url" unless url
raise "You must have EZNEWS-USER and EZNEWS-PASS in the envrionment" unless user && pass

url = url.gsub(/^http:\/\//, "http://#{user}:#{pass}@")
command = "axel -a -n 6 #{url}"
exec *command.split(" ")