JIGDO-LITE(1)

💿 JIGDO-LITE(1) — bestie edition 💿

okay so this is the whole JIGDO-LITE(1) manual page, and we’re gonna get through it together, no cap. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

jigdo-lite — download jigdo files using wget 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

jigdo-lite [ URL ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

For the intro to Jigsaw Download, see jigdo-file(1), bestie. ✨

So here’s the vibe: you give jigdo-lite the URL of a .jigdo file, and it downloads the large file — like, say, a CD image — that has been made available through that URL. 🔥

wget(1) is the one doing the fetching for the necessary pieces of administrative data — that’s the stuff inside the .jigdo file and a corresponding .template file — plus the many pieces that the large file is made from. Then the jigdo-file(1) utility is used to reconstruct the large file from those pieces. literally teamwork. 💖

.jigdo files that contain references to Debian mirrors are treated specially: when such a file is recognized, you are asked to select one mirror out of a list of all Debian mirrors. mirror menu moment. 🪞✨

If URL is not given on the command line, the script prompts for a location to download the .jigdo file from. 🎀

Command line options it recognizes, iykyk:

• -h, --help — output a short summary of command syntax. 🧚
• -v, --version — output the version number. ⭐
• --scan FILES — do not ask for "Files to scan", use this path instead. 📂
• --noask — do not ask any questions; instead, behave as if the user had pressed Return at all prompts. This can be useful when running jigdo-lite from cron jobs or in other non-interactive environments. 🤖💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

jigdo-file(1), jigdo-mirror(1), wget(1) (or info wget) 👑

CD images for Debian Linux can be downloaded with jigdo <URL:http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/>. 🦋

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Jigsaw Download <URL:http://atterer.org/jigdo/> was written by Richard Atterer <jigdo atterer.org>, to make downloading of CD ROM images for the Debian Linux distribution more convenient. 💜

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Footer check, bestie: the source/version label is JIGDO-LITE(1), dated May 04, 2002 — and that’s the whole page. mwah 💋🎀