Hello,

I just downloaded your neat bashpodder script and I love it! No need to
make a podder more complicated than this! :-) Thanks for creating it.

Now that I've tried it for some Swedish podcasts I have modified it
somewhat to work better for these. Feel free to include the
modifications in your official version, or just ignore them.

       if ! grep "$url" podcast.log > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
       then
               wget -q -c -T 2 -t 0 -P $datadir "$url"
       fi

1. The "2> /dev/null" throws away grep's error messages (when
podcast.log doesn't exist).

2a. The -c switch for wget tells it to continue a previously aborted
download if it exists, instead of starting all over again.

2b. The -T 2 switch for wget tells it to restart the download after a
timeout of two seconds, e.g. when the connection is reset. Otherwise the
download freezes for a very long time, which happens a lot for one of my
podcasts.

2c. The -t 0 switch for wget tells it to keep retrying indefinitely.
Otherwise it will give up when encountering a lot of errors. (This may
not be a very good idea for a stable application release, though.)

--
Cheers,

Christian Davén