Tuesday, March 19, 2013

How to download file using cURL?


Simple.. use the -O option which tells that the downloaded file should be named as that of the original file that are we are trying to download. 

For e.g., 

curl -O http://mydomain.com/example.zip

This will download the file example.zip into the same directory from where you are running this command and will name the downloaded file as example.zip. 

There are a lot of options which can be used with curl. For a list of them see curl --help. 

An excellent link which I found that details various curl day to day examples is http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/04/curl-examples/. 

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