Download a file using command prompt

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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Ryan Bemrose Ryan Bemrose 8, 36 36 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges. When dealing with software bugs, how you ask the question determines how likely you are to get a good answer. To me programming is talking with a computer.

The computer understands zeroes and ones, nothing in between. So when someone has a bug and tells a story instead of giving the relevant zeroes and ones, chances are they will never find a solution. There is nothing worse than having errors you don't see. There are mistakes we make and IDEs do their best to notify us as we type.

Things like syntax errors, missing semi colons, wrong data type assignment. These things happen and the compiler throws an error before we launch our application. The worse kind of errors are those that only happen in specific conditions. Andy Jun 20 :. Ibrahim Jun 20 :. Manish Oct 2 :. Ibrahima Diallo Oct 2 :. Manish I just tested it by downloading a jpeg file with curl, wget, and Invoke-WebRequest and the sizes are all the same. There is no extra compression with Invoke-WebRequest , all it does is download the file as is.

Ibrahim Oct 15 :. Ibrahim Jul 24 :. James Make sure you use -O and give it a path. Joel Oct 6 :. Ibrahim Oct 7 :.

Thanks for your comment. Shivani Oct 15 :. Sam Jul 7 :. But you can save some more time by pressing, ctrl-c then ctrl-v My hands are already on the keyboard, and I would rather do the mundane things on the keyboard and not think about them.

Open PowerShell. Now run the curl command with the -O option to specify the file output. Sign up for the Newsletter. On a related note, here are some interesting articles. Why is php turning my string into 0 One thing I am learning the hard way is, if you don't write it down you will forget it.

How to think like a programmer When dealing with software bugs, how you ask the question determines how likely you are to get a good answer. How to use error handling in PHP There is nothing worse than having errors you don't see.

Comments 14 Andy Jun 20 :. It goes in your current folder. Use -O to specify where you want it to go. Hi Joel Thanks for your comment. I'll update the article to add it as an option.