Every time I see someone do this, I die a little inside. Sure you can save some time by right-clicking, copy, right-click, paste. 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.
One thing I do frequently is download files. They can be zip file, tgz, or jpg. On linux, all I have to do is open the command line, run wget with the file I want to download and it is done.
Straight to the point. But how do you do that when you are on a Windows machine? Let me introduce you to cURL, pronounced curl. But I just want to download the file on Windows so let's just learn how to do that. Easy right? Now you can download files right from the command line all by simply using your keyboard.
It is time I confess. This is not the curl tool you are using. It's only an alias. In reality, we are calling the command Invoke-WebRequest.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. If you follow their HTML, they do some tricks to hide the actual source of contents. Improve this answer. Wooow it never occurred to me to check the HTML code. I don't like that kind of tricky websites at all I do not know why they have to hide the "real link" users are looking for. Anyway your answer made my day. Mainly revolving around their desire to have you visit their actual page to get the resource rather than bypassing it e.
JBentley True indeed, but in this case a site dedicated to Open Source obfuscating what helps them grow is a bit As it actually says on the page itself: wget -O wsj0-train-spkrinfo. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Devstr Devstr 3, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges.
I attempted the command you provided. However, the file downloaded without the text that was in it. Yes, you must sign into the account I believe since it is being hosted by Box. Is there a way to obtain a "sharing" link for that file that does not require authentication? You can test if a URL requires authentication by opening it in your browser in the "Incognito" mode.
If it opens, it does not need auth. Yes, the url requires authentication. I will do more research to find a way to "supply it to curl" Thank You.
Show 1 more comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. It is due to this flexible nature of it that it has gained an edge over the Graphical User Interface GUI and as a result, many users have switched to the Command Line for doing various tasks, one of which is the downloading of files. One of the most popular command line tools for downloading files from the internet is Wget. It also provides users with a variety of features ranging from recursive downloading to playing and pausing the downloads as well as limiting its bandwidth.
Moreover, it is cross-platform which gives it quite the edge over many other command line downloaders as well as graphical downloaders. Wget usually comes pre-installed with most of the Linux Distributions. It is to be noted that the command given above is for only Debian based Linux systems such as Ubuntu. If a user has a Red Hat Linux system such as Fedora, then the user needs to enter the following command into the command line:. As mentioned before, Wget has multiple features incorporated inside of it.
The most basic operation that Wget offers to users is downloading files by simply using its URL. This can be done by inputting the following command into the terminal:. Let us show an example to further clarify this. We will be downloading a simple image in the png format from the internet. See the image below for better understanding:.
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