rfc-cli-downloader

A CLI tool for downloading RFCs as txt files.

I am an avid command line user and I didn't like having to view RFCs from a browser. I wanted to view them in Neovim, so I wrote a tiny little script to download RFCs in parallel using wget and parallel.

Usage

To download the RFC1945 simply type:

$ rfc 1945
$ ls
rfc1945.txt

This script uses GNU parallels to download each RFC in parallel:

$ rfc 1945 7230 7540
$ ls
rfc1945.txt rfc7230.txt rfc7540.txt

Install

Download the script rfc.sh, make it executable, and have it on your path.

I prefer to symlink it to a folder I have specifically for scripts:

ln -s <install-path>/rfc.sh ~/.scripts/rfc