Download a file via terminal?

[Agent-X]

I want to download a file from a website via terminal.
How do I do that?

Nevermind, wget works well.

$wget http://www.google.com/index.html

[bigtomrodney]

wget is great but also have a look at curl. I still prefer wget for its outright simplicity and quick resuming of downloads.

[Dapper Dan]

wget is truely one of the great Linux apps. I wonder if there is an easy way to make firefox open a terminal and use wget when downloading files. I know there's kget, and I like it, but wget is tops in my book.

EDIT: There may be a way... I'm checking this page... Link

[thelettere]

[QUOTE=Dapper Dan;521341]wget is truely one of the great Linux apps. I wonder if there is an easy way to make firefox open a terminal and use wget when downloading files. I know there's kget, and I like it, but wget is tops in my book.


There's a great way to run terminal commands with php.

<?php
shell_exec(wget xyz);
?>

[oz]

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