[lug] http get from a command line

[David Morris]

wget is the tool you are looking for.

--David

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Steve Pollock wrote:

> Looking for a utility that will do an HTTP GET from the command line, be able to deal with an http redirect and download a single file. 
> 
> I looked into lynx which will take a URL on the command line but it doesn't seem to want to start without html or text to parse.  That is, if you pass it a filename  ryryry.bin it doesn't recognize as html so it quits.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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