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Downloading and Syncing Archive.org Collections

Following are instructions on how to use the Internet Archive command-line tool, "ia", to download a collection from Archive.org and keep it synced. The only requirements are that you have Python 2 installed on a Unix-like operating system (i.e. Mac OS X, Linux).

Downloading and Configuring the Ia Command-Line Tool

1. Download the latest binary of the ia command-line tool:

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#!/bin/bash

## Validate arguments
if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
	echo "Fetches latest Spigot patch and applies it."
	echo
	echo "Usage: <spigot-1649-jar-path> <output-file>"
	exit 1
fi

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Step 1

Does your osx terminal speak java 7? Start Terminal.app and try: java -version:

> java -version
java version "1.7.0_51"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)