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Asked: 2012-10-28 09:44:09 +0800 CST

How to download a file from a website via terminal?

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Suppose that we have a full URL of desired file e.g.

http://domain.com/directory/4?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=file.tgz

I would like to go without installing a new software. Is it possible?

Command

 cp  'http://example.com/directory/4?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=file.tgz' hooray

doesn't work ;)

command-line

6 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Open terminal and type

    wget "http://domain.com/directory/4?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=file.tgz"

    to download the file to the current directory.

    wget  -P /home/omio/Desktop/ "http://thecanadiantestbox.x10.mx/CC.zip"

    will download the file to /home/omio/Desktop

    wget  -O /home/omio/Desktop/NewFileName "http://thecanadiantestbox.x10.mx/CC.zip"

    will download the file to /home/omio/Desktop and give it your NewFileName name.

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  2. you can do it by using curl .

    curl -O http://domain.com/directory/4?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=file.tgz

    The -O saves the file with the same name as in the url rather than dumping the output to stdout

    For more information

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  3. I use axel and wget for downloading from terminal, axel is download accelerator

    syntax

    axel

    Install via the software center

    axel www.example.com/example.zip

    wget

    wget -c www.example.com/example.zip

    for more details type man axel, man wget in terminal

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  4. Just to add more flavor to this question, I'd also recommend that you take a look at this:

    history -d $((HISTCMD-1)) && echo '[PASSWORD]' | sudo -S shutdown now

    You could use this to shutdown your computer after your wget command with a ; perhaps or in a bash script file.

    This would mean you don't have to stay awake at night and monitor until your download as (un)successfully run.

    Read this answer as well

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  5. the lack of Aria2 mention is just a disservice so with that said, check out Aria2. https://aria2.github.io/

    Install it by simply typing in terminal:

    sudo apt install aria2

    Then simply type this to download the file:

    aria2c http://example.com/directory/4?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=file.tgz

    You can find more help with aria2 by its man page.

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  6. I did these steps From Oh-my-zsh,

    brew install wget
wget https://github.com/sencha-extjs-examples/QuickStart/archive/master.zip
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