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A common use for wget for me is downloading a tarball or something to a remote server. Browse for it on local browser, then type wget and paste the download UR
by scintill76 12y ago
A common use for wget for me is downloading a tarball or something to a remote server. Browse for it on local browser, then type wget and paste the download URL into an ssh connection. It is a bit biased toward wget just because I happened to learn it first, but I could use curl -O the same way.
- Tyr42 12y agoCould also do `curl ${url}.tgz | tar xz`.
- coryrc 12y agoWhich fails badly if the download gets interrupted.
- scintill76 12y agoYeah, and you can't check file integrity (hash or crypto signature) first, or list the contents of the file before extracting.