How do I download a file from the internet to my linux server with Bash [closed]

Solution 1:

Using wget

wget -O /tmp/myfile 'http://www.google.com/logo.jpg'

or curl:

curl -o /tmp/myfile 'http://www.google.com/logo.jpg'

Solution 2:

You can use the command wget to download from command line. Specifically, you could use

wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u10-b18/jdk-7u10-linux-x64.tar.gz

However because Oracle requires you to accept a license agreement this may not work (and I am currently unable to test it).

Solution 3:

I guess you could use curl and wget, but since Oracle requires you to check of some checkmarks this will be painfull to emulate with the tools mentioned. You would have to download the page with the license agreement and from looking at it figure out what request is needed to get to the actual download.

Of course you could simply start a browser, but this might not qualify as 'from the command line'. So you might want to look into lynx, a text based browser.