Unix command to download a file from the web

veryangryman · 14-10-2014 4:02pm #1

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?

Craazysteve · 14-10-2014 4:07pm

wget

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

Seridisand · 14-10-2014 4:08pm

You can use a wget command from the terminal

Aswerty · 14-10-2014 4:10pm

Sound like your looking for the "curl" command.

See this

Just seen above post. This might be of interest.

veryangryman · 14-10-2014 4:11pm

Thanks lads but curl and wget only work on Lunix.

Solaris box im using

Graham · 14-10-2014 4:14pm

veryangryman wrote: »

Solaris box im using

S10:

/usr/sfw/bin/wget

Aswerty · 14-10-2014 4:17pm

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.

cython · 14-10-2014 9:56pm

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.

h57xiucj2z946q · 15-10-2014 1:04pm

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

Unix command to download a file from the web

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