Curl also allows users to change the filename and the type of the file. This can be done by the following command:. In the image above, we took a png file originally named pancake1. Just like in the case of Wget, Curl allows users to download multiple files using a number of URLs from the internet. For our example, we will use curl to download a jpg file and a png file from the internet.
Results are shown in the image below:. A pretty amazing feature that Curl provides to its users is its ability to monitor the progress of the download of the file. For more information regarding Curl, users can input the following command into the terminal to get access to all the Curl commands that appear to be available:. Wget and Curl are among the wide range of command line tools that Linux offers for the downloading of files.
Both offer a huge set of features that cater to different needs of the users. If users simply want to download files recursively, then Wget would be a good choice. Hi there! You can reach out to me on LinkedIn.
Show 2 more comments. I can never remember if it's a zero or O — Alexander Mills. I use axel and wget for downloading from terminal, axel is download accelerator syntax axel axel www. Community Bot 1. Tachyons Tachyons Read this answer as well. Michael Tunnell Michael Tunnell 4, 1 1 gold badge 16 16 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges.
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Recommend Deletion option in Late Answers review queue does nothing - please The disadvantage of the above solution compared to downloading is lower transfer speed, since the connection with your local machine usually has much less bandwidth than the connection between your headless server and other servers. To solve that, you can of course execute the above command on another server with decent bandwidth.
To make that more comfortable avoiding a manual login on the third machine , here is a command to execute on your local machine. See the explanations below for the reason. The command will ssh to your third machine intermediate-host , start downloading a file to there via wget , and start uploading it to target-host via SSH.
Downloading and uploading use the bandwidth of your intermediate-host and happen at the same time due to Bash pipe equivalents , so progress will be fast. For the -T -e none SSH options when using it to transfer files, see these detailed explanations. This command is meant for cases where you can't use SSH's public key authentication mechanism — it still happens with some shared hosting providers, notably Host Europe.
To still automate the process, we rely on sshpass to be able to supply the password in the command. It requires sshpass to be installed on your intermediate host sudo apt-get install sshpass under Ubuntu.
We try to use sshpass in a secure way, but it will still not be as secure as the SSH pubkey mechanism says man sshpass. In particular, we supply the SSH password not as a command line argument but via a file, which is replaced by bash process substitution to make sure it never exists on disk. The printf is a bash built-in, making sure this part of the code does not pop up as a separate command in ps output as that would expose the password [ source ]. And that without using a temp file [ source ].
But no guarantees, maybe I overlooked something. Again to make the sshpass usage safe, we need to prevent the command from being recorded to the bash history on your local machine. For that, the whole command is prepended with one space character, which has this effect. Normally, SSH would then wait for user input to confirm the connection attempt. We make it proceed anyway. So we have to rewrite the typical wget -O - … ssh … command into a form without a bash pipe, as explained here.
Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. We are thankful for your never ending support. Please help me with some command that can help to do download the file from server to local machine. Thanks in advance. You should use rsync or scp command to get the file from remote server to local, please go through these articles on how to do it..
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