Probably you will not need too often to download files from the command line/PowerShell, but in case you need, we will show here how you can archive this task.
In Linux, we have two commands to download files – wget and curl. Windows OS has the curl command. The curl command came to Windows in 2008.
To get the file content from the command line/PowerShell use curl URL
C:\Users\Web>curl plothost.com/kb
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://plothost.com/kb/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
C:\Users\Web>To save the file on the local disk use curl URL -o local_filename
C:\Users\Web>curl http://plothost.com/test_file -o test_file.test
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2054k 100 2054k 0 0 342k 0 0:00:06 0:00:06 --:--:-- 420k
C:\Users\Web>The -o option will output the content to a file instead of the terminal.
-o, –output Write to file instead of stdout
curl –help
To see all curl options, use curl –help.
If you are using Windows PowerShell, you can also use the Invoke-WebRequest command.
The Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet sends HTTP and HTTPS requests to a web page or web service. It parses the response and returns collections of links, images, and other significant HTML elements.
Invoke-WebRequest Doc
PS C:\Users\Web> Invoke-WebRequest http://plothost.com/test_file -o test_file.test
PS C:\Users\Web>
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