til/unix/download-a-file-with-curl.md

Download A File With Curl

Though I typically think of cURL as a way of hitting an API endpoint to check its headers or see what it returns, it can also be used as an alternative to wget to download a file.

With the -O option (short for --remote-name) we instruct cURL to save the contents of the remote file to a local file in the current directory using the same name as the remote.

Here is an example:

$ curl -O https://www.apache.org/dist/db/derby/db-derby-10.17.1.0/db-derby-10.17.1.0-bin.zip.asc

This creates a file in my current directory called db-derby-10.17.1.0-bin.zip.asc. Notice it only uses the last part of the path for the file name.

See man curl for more details.

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