Download files from web in terminal

Shawn Coomey yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jul 31 14:34:01 2002


>You can use one of 3 text (console) browsers, lynx, links 
>or w3m. I prefer
>links because it does colors (colored links) and frames.
>
>Example of usage:
>
>links www.google.com

Definitely cool, but I think he's talking about fetching a 
specific file. And for that, either wget or curl are the 
ware to go.

Usage (wget): 
wget 
http://www.someserver.com/path/to/file/filename.tar.gz

Usage (curl):
curl -O 
http://www.someserver.com/path/to/file/filename.tar.gz