aria2
Web: https://aria2.github.io/.
On CSD3, one can use the prerequiste module load aria2-1.33.1-gcc-5.4.0-r36jubs.
Installation
export HPC_WORK=/rds/user/${USER}/hpc-work
cd ${HPC_WORK}
wget -qO- https://github.com/aria2/aria2/releases/download/release-1.36.0/aria2-1.36.0.tar.gz | \
tar xvfz -
cd aria2-1.36.0/
module load gettext-0.19.8.1-gcc-5.4.0-zaldouz
module load jemalloc-4.5.0-gcc-5.4.0-j3zbugm
module load libuv-1.25.0-gcc-5.4.0-stlddds
module load zlib/1.2.11
# modules not picked up: expat-2.2.5-gcc-5.4.0-4mvunyd libgcrypt-1.8.1-gcc-5.4.0-gbvid6j openssl-system-gcc-5.4.0-equqac7
./configure --prefix=${HPC_WORK} --enable-libaria2 --enable-static --with-jemalloc --with-libuv LIBS=-lintl
make
make install
It also uses SQLite3, gmp, gnutls, nettle, cppunit, e.g., git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/cppunit/ (sourceforge) and libssh2, e.g., https://libssh2.org/download/libssh2-1.10.0.tar.gz.
Examples
aria2c -h
aria2c -i urls.txt
awk 'NR==10' urls.txt | \
aria2c -i -
The commands give usage information, download files in urls.txt and the tenth file only, respectively.