How to download files in ubuntu terminal

Learn more. How to download a file from a website via terminal? Ask Question. Asked 9 years ago. Active 3 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 1. Suppose that we have a full URL of desired file e. Is it possible? Improve this question. Read this — dearN. You can add -c option to resume download if connection was lost while downloading file.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. David Foerster 34k 54 54 gold badges 85 85 silver badges bronze badges. Beat me to the punch. But yeah, it's wget [whatever web address]. If you want to choose the location, type cd [local location on your computer. Omio There is no need to run cd. You can just specify output file via -O option. Your examples will not work. Sergey Thanks for the clarification.

I haven't had to use wget yet, but I would have to, in the future. You need to quote or escape it. Generally, you have a shortcut to paste a quoted or escaped version of the string in the clipboard in your terminal. Be very careful when pasting stuffs inside a terminal. Show 2 more comments. I can never remember if it's a zero or O — Alexander Mills. I use axel and wget for downloading from terminal, axel is download accelerator syntax axel axel www. I am using Ubuntu here but apart from the installation, rest of the commands are equally valid for all other Linux distributions.

You can download a single file, multiple files, entire directory or even an entire website using wget. This means you can easily use it in scripts or even build tools like uGet download manager. Most Linux distributions come with wget preinstalled. On Ubuntu and Debian based distribution, you can use the apt package manager command:.

You just need to provide the URL of the file or webpage. It will download the file with its original name in the directory you are in.

It will be a good idea to provide custom name to downloaded file. Suppose you are browsing an FTP server and you need to download an entire directory, you can use the recursive option. Yes, you can totally do that. You can mirror an entire website with wget. By downloading an entire website I mean the entire public facing website structure.

If you aborted the download by pressing C for some reasons, you can resume the previous download with option -c. Like wget, curl is also one of the most popular commands to download files in Linux terminal.

To install curl on Ubuntu and other Debian based distributions, use the following command:. If you use curl without any option with a URL, it will read the file and print it on the terminal screen. It is simpler to download multiple files in Linux with curl. You just have to specify multiple URLs:. Keep in mind that curl is not as simple as wget. 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.