Download files from web in terminal

[Ken Schweigert]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 03:58:08PM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> I have what is probably a simple question ... so simple, I can't find the
> answer to it. I want to download a tar file from a reputable web site to my
> linux box. I am not running a GUI on my linux box - I usually connect via
> telnet or terminal session. I've tried FTP and scp but I have to login with
> a user name and password. I just want to download a file from a web site
> that is accessible from any web browser but do it from my terminal session.
> Can this be done and if so, could someone explain it to me as if I were a
> baby!?!?!?

Try something similar to this:

    [ken@byteme ken]$ wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.6e.tar.gz

-ken

> 
> Thanks a lot for any help.
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