[lug] http get from a command line

[Steve Pollock]

Both solutions work fine (wget & lynx -source)  Thanks!

At 11:51 AM 7/23/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Did you try using -source on the command line?
>
>I didn't do extensive testing, but I can grab a .gif file that way.
>
>You do need to redirect the output to the file you want it to go to.
>
>* Steve Pollock (spollock at cisco.com) [010723 17:38]:
>> 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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