Bash download file

So we have to rewrite the typical wget -O - … ssh … command into a form without a bash pipe, as explained here. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 4 months ago. Active 2 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 62k times.

How can I download a file? Improve this question. Chris Snow. Chris Snow Chris Snow 3, 4 4 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. I can't remember now if gawk was available, though I'd love to see a gawk based solution if you have one : — Chris Snow. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Update: as mentioned in the comment, the approach outlined above is simplistic: the read will trashes backslashes and leading whitespace.

Bash can't deal with NUL bytes very nicely so binary files are out. Improve this answer. So you answered your own question at the same time as you asked it.

That's an interesting time machine you have ; — Meer Borg. MeerBorg - when you ask a question, look for the tick box 'answer your own question' - blog. Can I explain the code? Not yet! But it does work on cygwin. Just a note: This won't work with some configurations of Bash. I believe Debian configures this feature out of their distribution of Bash. Urgh, while this is a nice trick, it can too easily cause corrupt downloads. None of this I see mentioned in the answer.

Show 4 more comments. Use lynx. Note lynx -source is closer to wget — Steven Penny. Hey, so this is a really late comment but how do you save the output of the telnet command to a file? We need Administrative features enabled by running PowerShell from Start Menu where we will right-click and then select Run as administrator.

We will be asked is we want to restart the computer after the installation is complete. We will answer Y. Linux distributions can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store like below. We can access Microsoft Store from start menu with Microsoft Store keyword. We will write linux to the search box and search. Alternatively, if we are looking for a specific Linux.

The search results for the Linux container will be listed below. The following information also provided with the search results. In this example, we will select the Ubuntu image with the latest version.

Ubuntu During the download, the download status will be shown in the header like below. We can see that the Ubuntu image is about MB and downloaded very fast. However, there is no guarantee that curl is currently installed in your distro. Curl is open-source software. You can grab the curl source code and compile it manually. The following process was demonstrated in Ubuntu. For an in-depth guide on compiling curl, check out the official curl documentation.

Download the curl source code here. I have grabbed the latest version of the curl source code. At the time of writing this article, the latest version is curl v7. 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.