Wget vs curl download file

Thanks so muc for the info……. You sure know how to make useful posts! Jatin July 31, , am. G Gayatri Soumya February 13, , pm. Hi, I am trying to download a file from GE library.

Please share your comments, Your help is appreciated. Thanks Gayatri. Jon May 14, , am. Sasha April 16, , am. Mirak April 27, , pm. Ashish makwana October 16, , am. Mahesh November 2, , pm. Thanks you for all the useful posts and do continue the good work. Thank you for all the useful posts and do continue the good work. Important Dude September 14, , am. What if a site requires authentication prior able to download? Eg: mysql binary?

Shubham Gupta January 4, , am. Thanks for the article. If I already performed the 2FA auth for the day, and I'm able to go to the web server via browser, it should work with wget and curl?

The only other way I can think of to automate this is to use xdg-open command, which opens the URL in browser and downloads the correct zip file. Just thought there would be an easier way to do it using wget or curl. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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Recommend Deletion option in Late Answers review queue does nothing - please Please stop posting half answers and dumb advice as comments. Related Hot Network Questions. Question feed. MattSizzle MattSizzle 3, 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. You could use basename instead of your awk trick. If you want the file saved in a different directory, make sure you change the current working directory before invoking curl with this option.

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