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