Just like Wget, Curl has multiple features incorporated inside of it. The most basic is its ability to allow users to download files from a single URL from the internet. For better understanding, we will be downloading a simple image in the png format from the internet just like in the case of Wget. Curl also allows users to change the filename and the type of the file.
This can be done by the following command:. In the image above, we took a png file originally named pancake1. Just like in the case of Wget, Curl allows users to download multiple files using a number of URLs from the internet. For our example, we will use curl to download a jpg file and a png file from the internet. Results are shown in the image below:. A pretty amazing feature that Curl provides to its users is its ability to monitor the progress of the download of the file.
For more information regarding Curl, users can input the following command into the terminal to get access to all the Curl commands that appear to be available:. Wget and Curl are among the wide range of command line tools that Linux offers for the downloading of files. Both offer a huge set of features that cater to different needs of the users. What I have done is to use Firefox on my Win desktop to accept the license then start download. As soon as the download starts, open the download dialog and cancel the download.
Then rightclick on the cancelled item and choose "copy download link". You can now use this link in the wget command paste it in the terminal window. The Overflow Blog. Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer?
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Using the touch command, make a new download list. Once it is closed, execute the wget -i download-list command below. Curl is an impressive, useful program, and it has been around for a very long time. Curl comes standard on some Linux operating systems, but not all. Since not every Linux OS installs it by default for users, we must demonstrate how to set up Curl. To start the installation, open up a terminal window on the Linux desktop. Once the terminal window is open on the Linux desktop, follow along with the command-line installation instructions for Curl that corresponds with the Linux OS you currently use.
Study the help page to get a feel for the app. Then, add it to the curl command below. You just have to specify multiple URLs:. 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.
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