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[SOLVED]Cannot download with curl

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alex.theoto
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[SOLVED]Cannot download with curl

#1 Post by alex.theoto »

I'm sorry for my dump question but I'm stuck here.

On the web, I read that with the command

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curl -O http://....
I can download a file and with the lowercase -o I can rename the downloaded file.
But I try with no success.
For example,

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curl -O https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso
will download an html file like:

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://caesar.ftp.acc.umu.se/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.26 (Unix) Server at cdimage.debian.org Port 443</address>
</body></html>
How do I download something with curl?
Last edited by alex.theoto on 2017-07-08 20:32, edited 1 time in total.
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Lysander
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Re: Cannot download with curl

#2 Post by Lysander »

Never heard of it till now but it has to be installed first.

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sudo apt-get install curl
Then you can download files re the tutorials here:

http://www.slashroot.in/curl-command-tu ... mple-usage

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/07/wget-curl

I tried it with the file below as an experiment

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curl -O http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
And it downloaded it to Home.

Once installed you can run

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curl --help
or

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curl --manual
which are probably both worth reading and would answer all your questions.

It seems quite powerful and I personally wouldn't use it too much without knowing what I was doing first.
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alex.theoto
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Re: Cannot download with curl

#3 Post by alex.theoto »

Now I get it.
In my first attempt, the provided .iso link pointed into another link, which is showed as html file. Then I had to use the new .iso link.
From
I had to go to
Well, it was obvious since there was a message
<p>The document has moved <a href=
.
Thank you very match for your example links. Problem solved.
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