There are man times when you will have to download files from the command line. In most distributions, you have two tools – wget and curl.
wget
This a very powerful command to simply download a file. Just use wget URL to download the file to the current location:
root@web [/]# wget https://ip.plothost.com/test
--2020-01-19 06:11:50-- https://ip.plothost.com/test
Resolving ip.plothost.com (ip.plothost.com)... 104.10.10.155
Connecting to ip.plothost.com (ip.plothost.com)|104.10.10.155|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 94371840 (90M)
Saving to: 'test'
100%[==============================================================================================================================>] 94,371,840 11.2MB/s in 8.3s
2020-01-19 06:11:58 (10.9 MB/s) - 'test' saved [94371840/94371840]
root@web [/]#To use a custom filename, the command is wget URL -O filename.
curl
With the curl command, you can get the file content or download a file. To get file content, use curl URL:
root@web [~]# curl https://ip.plothost.com/testfile.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Test file PlotHost.com</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#EFEFEF">
Testing ...
</BODY></HTML>
root@web [~]#
To download a file, curl URL -o filename
root@web [/]# curl https://ip.plothost.com/test -o test_file
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 90.0M 100 90.0M 0 0 10.5M 0 0:00:08 0:00:08 --:--:-- 11.1M
root@web [/]#
Resources:
wget man page
curl man page