How to download file from web linux

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Active 8 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 2k times. How would I go about doing this? Kyle Mock Kyle Mock 15 4 4 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Thomas Fonseca Thomas Fonseca 4 4 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. You can create a script that will serve the file from your home directory through your website. You can achieve the same using many other languages, like Perl, or Bash.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Keep in mind that curl is not as simple as wget. While wget saves webpages as index.

This is because some times the links redirect to some other link and with option -L, it follows the final link. As always, there are multiple ways to do the same thing in Linux. Downloading files from the terminal is no different. There are more such command line tools. Terminal based web-browsers like elinks , w3m etc can also be used for downloading files in command line. Personally, for a simple download, I prefer using wget over curl.

It is simpler and less confusing because you may have a difficult time figuring out why curl could not download a file in the expected format. Also a movie buff with a soft corner for film noir. It has many other features like resuming unfinished DLs among many others.

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It can do this by first downloading the. I primarily use Debian and Arch, so those are the only two I have memorized. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Like what you read? Please share it with others. You should definitely consider switching from Wget and Curl over to Aria2!

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