Questions tagged [download]
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How to get triggered download from site with delay
Normally I use wget to get files that trigger a download.
However, I'm currently using a site that takes a few seconds to generate the download, so wget downloads the html instead of the zip file I ...
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Download Accelerator for Unix using MobaXterm SSH [closed]
I am using MobaXterm in Windows to SSH into a Unix Server.
I am trying to download a large file (>30GB) using MobaXterm and it just times out and then stops.
My question: Is there a download ...
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Recursive wget, append something to each found URL
My main goal is to easily backup the page source for a bunch of MediaWiki pages of mine. I have every page I want downloaded, listed on my username page (https://wiki.example.com/index.php?title=User:...
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Batch download a series of files and add prefix to them
So I have a list of downloadable links with a specific order, but the filenames are jumbled up
example.com/ddk.zip
example.com/453.zip
example.com/hth.zip
So I want to automatically prefix them as I ...
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wget download files from a file list, how to specify names for each of the downloaded file?
When downloading a single file, we can use wget's -O option to specify the file name. When I'm downloading Urls in a file using wget -i filelist.txt (filelist.txt contains list Of Urls I want to ...
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PureOS verification of download
PureOS has SHA256 verification of download, but I've heard that SHA isn't so secure. Do they sign their files or provide associated .sig files? And is it true that that would be more secure?
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Get current download speed as a number
nload is handy when it comes to live monitoring of bandwidth consumption. It displays an ongoing process window and you can look at it. While this is useful for humans, it isn't useful for scripts.
I'...
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how to obtain a file in an interactive bash shell session
Not sure if I ask this correctly. I am doing some pentest practice, and in a bash shell session, I want to download a file.
I tried cp to that machine, but it just creates a file in the current ...
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Local network rsync slower than internet download
I've tried rsyncing a 3gb movie from my arch box to my friend's ubuntu box, both on the same network (and router). It went really slow, between 50kb/s to 300kb/s and he decided to download it from the ...
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How do I download a public dataset from the internet to linux? [closed]
I need to download a public dataset (from OpenNeuro) online to linux so I can work with this data. How to do so?
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Download error with youtube-dl and axel
I am trying to download following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQWj2Fgxdrc
by combining 'youtube-dl' and 'axel'. I am trying to download this video in such a way that I want these two ...
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Downloading File Using Telnet
I'm trying to download a file, https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty.exe or https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z1806-x64.exe, without using curl or wget; rather, I want to download the file by ...
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Download zip file from remote HTTPS host using netcat
I'm trying to download a zip file from : https://download.sysinternals.com/files/ProcessExplorer.zip (no curl and no WGET). I want to do that by netcat i used this command :
echo -e "GET
https://...
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Where can I download a compressed version of deepin OS?
I would like to try deepin OS. Unfortunately on the official site they only provide non compressed iso files. My download rate is really slow. Does someone have a link to a compressed version?
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Download filename-pattern-matching files from a public Google Drive folder with rclone (or alternative)
I'm trying to download all files from a public gdrive folder but with certain filetype restrictions (eg exclude *.avi,*.mkv,*.mp4 etc).
I originally tried with wget since that is what I am familiar ...
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Where can I find precompiled bootloader files (initramfs-linux.img)?
I need the boot files (initramfs-linux.img and vmlinuz-linux) from Arch 4.20-1 to fix a system. Is there a standard place where these can be found, or can they only be custom built?
When I look in ...
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How to download multiple files from website with wget and perform functions on downloaded file before next file is downloaded
I am using wget to download a number of json files from a website. However, I want to perform some sort of function on these files to reduce their size before downloading the next file.
Is there a ...
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wget download regex pattern files from remote URL
I want to download all *httpd* RPM file from remote CentOS mirror and I am trying he following command but it doesn't seem to work
[root@yum foo]# wget -r --no-parent -A "*httpd*" https://mirrors....
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How to download https file in AIX without wget and curl? [duplicate]
In an UNIX environment running AIX where I'm a not privileged user (without sudo) if I need to download a file from HTTPS server and there is no wget or curl... How I do it?
Is there any replacement ...
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Cannot download anything in chrome because of xdg-open popup?
I am unable to download any file from chrome because of the pop up in google chrome. I have tried to download pdf and iso files so far.
[msingh@centos ~]$ xdg-mime query filetype /home/msingh/...
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Download just one port from the Ports Collection of FreeBSD
On a fresh FreeBSD 11.2 machine, my /usr/ports folder is empty.
Running:
portsnap fetch extract
…as discussed in the Handbook results in filling my /usr/ports with a gig of content.
If I only ...
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Linux tool for http downloading using multiple connections via multiple interfaces
Is there a tool that allows http file download using multiple network interfaces and multiple connections? I'd like to test my overall internet connection speed by downloading a large file via ...
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Wget: downloading files selectively and recursively?
Question about wget, subfolder, and index.html.
Let's say I am inside "travels/" folder and this is in "website.com": "website.com/travels/".
Folder "travels/" contains a lot of files and other (sub)...
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A file on AkamaiGlobalHost downloads with a browser but not with curl
When I download the following file on my browsers (firefox & waterfox): https://launcher-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com/launcher/api/installer/download/EpicGamesLauncherInstaller.msi?...
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HTTP client saving download metadata
I am looking for a way to download files from the Web, while saving download metadata, like the requested URI, the returned status code and maybe even TLS certificate information (server certificate ...
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What permission am I missing here?
I am trying to download the ffmpeg package and all of its dependencies into a directory on my computer.
I use this code to do it
sudo apt-get download $(apt-rdepends ffmpeg|grep -v "^ ")
It works ...
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wget doesn't download images of a website?
I'm trying to download threads of a web forum which contains many images with wget. These images are hosted in a separate domain, so I used the -H flag to allow downloading them. The complete wget ...
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Where can I download fedora 12?
Does anyone know where to download Fedora 12 *.iso file today (mid June 2018)?
I have an old laptop computer from 2007 (an HP pavilion dv6000 series) that dual boots with a Linux distro.
Here are ...
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wget only parent pages using {..}
I have been trying to download specific pages in website.
The site uses common URL to go to next pages like below.
https://example.com/pages/?p=1
https://example.com/pages/?p=2
https://example.com/...
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How to fix this? (Kali Linux 32-bit in Virtualbox) [duplicate]
root@kali:~# sudo apt-get install -f
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another ...
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Why Windows download under VirtualBox is 20x faster than in native Linux? [closed]
I'm using Linux Debian Jessie 64-bit (Host), and have Windows 7 (Guest) running on Oracle VirtualBox. I'm using youtube-dl to download a video from YouTube. Since a friend asked me how to use it and ...
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Download big file over bad connection
Is there an existing tool, which can be used to download big files over a bad connection?
I have to regularly download a relatively small file: 300 MB, but the slow (80-120 KBytes/sec) TCP connection ...
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Debian script to download source of installed packages fails
I used the next script from askububtu to automate the download of all installed packages in a fresh debian 9.3 LXDE installation.
From here:
#!/bin/bash
dpkg --get-selections | while read line
do
...
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How to handle Last-modified header missing — time-stamps turned off
I was mirroring a site but something happened and wget died. So I had to run it again but I realized that Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off. was repeated so often in the output so ...
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How to transfer a part of a file from remote system via SCP?
I am trying to fetch a log file which is repeatedly updated. I want that updated file, but don't want to download the entire file again and again from the remote system via SCP.
Any idea to achieve ...
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wget using -i with -O
I have a db of files to download containing fields for filename and download_url with the format:
"foo-1.23.4.jar", "http://example.com/files/12345678/download"
"bar-5.67.8.jar", "http://example.com/...
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Uniting urls for a download utility (like wget) in one line
Consider these wget codes:
wget -P ~/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/repo/branch/papj.sh
wget -P ~/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/repo/branch/nixta.sh
Is there any elegant way to ...
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curl -O : Why it's not possible to download file specific directory? [closed]
The man curl entry for curl -O says:
If you want the file saved in a different directory, make sure you
change cur‐
rent working directory before you invoke curl with the -O, --...
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Why doesn't this wget download script work? [duplicate]
I have the following lines in a .sh shell script:
wget -O discord.deb https://discordapp.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=deb
sudo dpkg -i discord.deb
rm -f discord.deb
For some reason, ...
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Package has no installation candidate [closed]
I have an Ubuntu 15.04 and every time I try to download something (using sudo apt-get install), it says:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... ...
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Logging remote file to rsyslog
I have an embedded system that does not support remote logging, but I can download its log file over HTTP, e.g. with:
wget http://192.168.1.1/status/syslog.log
I'd like to use a third machine to get ...
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Download file from sftp after an m3u file order
In a ssh server I can connect using sftp. In this server I have a list of mkv files witch is listed in m3u8 playlist.
I want to download the mkvs but I want the download according to the order in the ...
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How to download package not install it with apt-get command?
sudo apt-get install pppoe
will download pppoe package and install it.
Is it possible to just download pppoe package and not install it with apt-get command?
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/...
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Looking for a terminal download manager
I am looking for a download manager running in CLI (terminal).
Tool should solve the following purpose.
Take a list of YouTube URL as input / take a URL-list from a file.
Should pause and resume ...
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HTTPS Authentication with Axel Downloader
Is there a way to use https authentication with Axel to download files?
I have gone through this answer and tried what was written, but to no extent. I got HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized as the output ...
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How to download a file in terminal which link redirects and seems to work in GUI only?
I am trying to figure out a way to download this file:
zoiper5_5.2.6_x86_64.tar.xz
from this link:
https://www.zoiper.com/en/voip-softphone/download/zoiper5/for/linux
from this web page ...
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How to download a document from a webpage with wget
I have a web page which contains a link to a document. I'm able to download the document by using the following command:
wget -r -A.doc www.website.com/1.doc
However, I would like to provide the ...
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Where is the OpenSuSE server ISO for download?
Which download is the "server" version for OpenSuSE?
Index of download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-current/iso/
[ICO] Name Last modified Size Metadata
[DIR] Parent Directory ...
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How can I download and save all the images shown in a web page?
I want to download the images shown in a web page, for example https://www.wikiart.org/en/paintings-by-style/art-nouveau-modern, (the ones under the All Artworks tab), and store them in a folder (e.g. ...
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Wget cannot validate https://ftp.gnu.org?
I'm working on Solaris and trying to upgrade Git by building Git and all of its dependencies from sources. Wget is failing to download a dependency, which is located at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/...
