How to download a file in unix

Asked 10 years, 6 months ago. Active 10 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 57k times. Improve this question. James James. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You can use winscp. Improve this answer. Software Mechanic Software Mechanic 1 1 silver badge 14 14 bronze badges. Is there no built in command to do this, for example to copy a file I would do cp file. Is there no such default way of doing a download in Unix? It just seems like such a common task. But since you are using a windows client the command is not available.

James, for some reason, the ability to ssh to a server or scp a file is consistently missing from each version of Windows. James: i missed out the Cygwin option. See Johan's answer — Software Mechanic. There's also SCP you could use to directly download the file. Wuffers Yab Yab 3, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Narayan Narayan 2 2 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges.

Filezilla is also an OSS option. Then you can use scp in the same was as on your unix server. Johan Johan 5, 3 3 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 52 52 bronze badges.

If you want to pull it from your desk many possibilities are offered to you : WinScp: provides a GUI for directories browsing and copy over ssh scp copy pscp: Provided on the PuTTY site, it gives you a command line interface usable with cmd. M'vy M'vy 3, 1 1 gold badge 18 18 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. While wget saves webpages as index. This is because some times the links redirect to some other link and with option -L, it follows the final link.

As always, there are multiple ways to do the same thing in Linux. Downloading files from the terminal is no different. There are more such command line tools.

Terminal based web-browsers like elinks , w3m etc can also be used for downloading files in command line. Personally, for a simple download, I prefer using wget over curl. It is simpler and less confusing because you may have a difficult time figuring out why curl could not download a file in the expected format. Also a movie buff with a soft corner for film noir.

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