Parallel download using Curl command line utility

Question

I want to download some pages from a website and I did it successfully using curl but I was wondering if somehow curl downloads multiple pages at a

Answer 1

Curl can also accelerate a download of a file by splitting it into parts:

$ man curl |grep -A2 '\--range'
       -r/--range 
              (HTTP/FTP/SFTP/FILE)  Retrieve a byte range (i.e a partial docu-
              ment) from a HTTP/1.1, FTP or  SFTP  server  or  a  local  FILE.

Here is a script that will automatically launch curl with the desired number of concurrent processes: https://github.com/axelabs/splitcurl