To demonstrate the usage of the curl program, first, we need a dummy file to download. Any online file will work for this, as long as you have the direct download link. For this guide, I will use the small file provided by think broadband. This is a very basic way of using curl. We will download the dummy file. With this flag, the file will be downloaded and saved at the current working directory. Need to download multiple files? Follow the command structure shown below. Curl allows you to limit the download speed.
Here, the download speed is limited to 1mb. It is also possible to manage an FTP server using curl. Downloading files from an FTP server is like the method shown before. However, assuming the FTP server requires user authentication, use the following command structure:.
In certain situations, the URL that you are trying to access may be blocked due to a lack of a proper user agent. Curl allows you to define the user agent manually. As for the user agent, you can use the User Agents randomizer. If you want a custom user agent, then you can find one from WhatIsMyBrowser. Despite it being a simple and lightweight tool, curl offers tons of features.
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:. Wget also allows users to download multiple files from different URLs.
This can easily be done by the following command:. Once again, we can show this using an example. We will be downloading two HTML files from two different websites. For better understanding, please look at the image below:. Here filename refers to the name that you want to address the file as. Using this, we can also change the type of the file. If you are stuck to the Linux terminal, say on a server, how do you download a file from the terminal? There is no download command in Linux but there are a couple of Linux commands for downloading file.
I am using Ubuntu here but apart from the installation, rest of the commands are equally valid for all other Linux distributions. You can download a single file, multiple files, entire directory or even an entire website using wget.
This means you can easily use it in scripts or even build tools like uGet download manager. Most Linux distributions come with wget preinstalled. On Ubuntu and Debian based distribution, you can use the apt package manager command:. You just need to provide the URL of the file or webpage. It will download the file with its original name in the directory you are in. It will be a good idea to provide custom name to downloaded file. Suppose you are browsing an FTP server and you need to download an entire directory, you can use the recursive option.
Yes, you can totally do that. You can mirror an entire website with wget. By downloading an entire website I mean the entire public facing website structure. If you aborted the download by pressing C for some reasons, you can resume the previous download with option -c.
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