curl

Send HTTP requests and receive responses, supports multiple protocols and authentication methods.

$ curl https://example.com/file.zip

URLSave to file (-o)

Examples

# Download file
curl -o output.zip https://example.com/file.zip

# Use remote filename
curl -LO https://example.com/archive.tar.gz

# Resume download
curl -C - -o file.zip https://example.com/file.zip

# Rate limit
curl --limit-rate 1M -O https://example.com/large.iso