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Unix command to download a file from the web

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  • 14-10-2014 5:02pm
    #1
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,557 ✭✭✭


    Ive been playing around with this for ages.

    On a Solaris machine, i want to get a file from www.somewebsite.com/fileXYz?version=1

    Is there a simple command for this?


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    #2
    Craazysteve
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Craazysteve


    wget

    wget https://www.somewebsite.com/fileXYz?version=1


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    Seridisand
    Registered Users Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    You can use a wget command from the terminal


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    Aswerty
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Aswerty


    Sound like your looking for the "curl" command.

    See this

    Just seen above post. This might be of interest.


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    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,557 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Thanks lads but curl and wget only work on Lunix.

    Solaris box im using


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    veryangryman wrote: »
    Solaris box im using

    S10:

    /usr/sfw/bin/wget


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    Aswerty
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Aswerty


    cUrl is a cross platform library, you can find a download for it on the website of the first link in my original post. I don't know if it comes prepackaged in Solaris.


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    cython
    Registered Users Posts: 4,766 ✭✭✭cython


    Graham wrote: »
    S10:

    /usr/sfw/bin/wget

    This. Solaris is unfortunately annoyingly insistent about littering what should be standard commands across various non-standard locations and off the path (ever try to get a full length ps output? It also requires you to use a less-than-standard ps location and syntax). gtar is another one, as tar behaves differently. I could go on, but that would be waaaaayyy off topic.


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    h57xiucj2z946q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭h57xiucj2z946q


    As someone mentioned above, GNU utils are not in your common /usr/bin folder on Solaris.

    remember if you are behind proxy, to set your env var first 
    bash: export http_proxy=http://www.proxy.org:8080
c shell: set http_proxy http://www.proxy.org:8080


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