Downloading a file from terminal

Learn more. How to download a file from a website via terminal? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 1 month ago. Active 3 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 1. Suppose that we have a full URL of desired file e. Is it possible? Improve this question. Read this — dearN. You can add -c option to resume download if connection was lost while downloading file. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.

Shivani Oct 15 :. Sam Jul 7 :. But you can save some more time by pressing, ctrl-c then ctrl-v My hands are already on the keyboard, and I would rather do the mundane things on the keyboard and not think about them. Open PowerShell. Now run the curl command with the -O option to specify the file output.

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The Wget Command. Many download scripts or file transfers use CURL as a means to achieve this. On the other hand, the use of CURL is not limited exclusively to computers but to other devices that use UNIX such as cell phones, cars and is the transfer backend of many of the most popular applications in the world. It is also possible to find other tools that are in the main repositories of most Linux distributions.

We are talking about tools like rsync or scp. Rsync, remote synchronize is known as a remote synchronization function of the software, it synchronizes files at the same time, can maintain the original file permissions, time, hard and soft links and other additional information. Synchronous data Using rsync Command in Linux. Although it is true that with Rsync we do not make a download itself, it can help us to copy and synchronize files from a server.

What in practice can be considered a download. On the other hand, scp is a variation of the cp command that allows you to copy files over a network. As with Rsync it is not a download but in practice it allows us to do it. Like Wget, the Curl app supports download lists. First, start by creating the download-list file with the touch command below.

Paste the URLs you wish to download into the download-list file. After that, use the command below to have Curl download from the list. To customize the download location, follow the example below. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.

Learn how your comment data is processed. Home Linux. Ubuntu sudo apt install wget Debian sudo apt-get install wget Arch Linux sudo pacman -S wget Fedora sudo dnf install wget OpenSUSE sudo zypper install wget After installing the Wget tool, execute the wget —help command.