Command to download file in bash

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How can I download a file from the Internet via Command Prompt? Asked 4 years, 10 months ago. Active 4 years, 10 months ago. Related Posts.

Found the line I wanted to delete. The line was still there… Went and edited in vim Worked Reply. AJ Sure, we will crosscheck this. Many thanks for the feedback. Got something to say? Ah, no harm done , you say, because those files didn't exist in the first place. OK, but what happens when someone puts a star i. So you'll see the previous errors, since Junk and Final. So the main takeaway here is: double-quote your variable references whenever possible.

Expanding a variable can lead to unexpected and sometimes catastrophic results if the variable contains special characters:. You might think, Who the hell puts star characters in their filenames? Well, besides people who really enjoy star-shaped symbols, malicious hackers and pranksters. And variables usually aren't just manually assigned by the result of human typing. As you've read above, sometimes the result of commands are stored in a variable. And if such commands are processing raw data, it's not unimaginable that the raw data, quite innocently, contains special characters that are destructive to certain Bash programs.

For the purposes of the CompCiv course, the assignments will try to stay far from untrusted sources of data. But keep in mind the dangers of just pasting in seemingly safe-looking code. Bash's syntax and behavior in handling strings is hard to fully comprehend, which is why developers use other languages for more complex applications.

If you want to choose the location, type cd [local location on your computer. Omio There is no need to run cd. You can just specify output file via -O option. Your examples will not work. Sergey Thanks for the clarification. I haven't had to use wget yet, but I would have to, in the future. You need to quote or escape it. Generally, you have a shortcut to paste a quoted or escaped version of the string in the clipboard in your terminal.

Be very careful when pasting stuffs inside a terminal. Show 2 more comments. I can never remember if it's a zero or O — Alexander Mills.

So, the user can disconnect from the system after starting the download and the downloading task will be completed by this command as background process. Using this command is beneficial, when downloading files from slow or unstable network. If the network disconnects for any reason before completing the download task, then this command will keep trying to complete the download when connected with the network.

Syntax: wget [ option ] [ URL ].