Alternative to "get"? Trying to download a file via HTTP (Solved via fetch)

Danny nocmonkey at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 14:42:43 PDT 2004


On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:35:50 +0200, Marc Fonvieille
<blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Danny wrote:
> > I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from
> > an HTTP site?
> >
> > I thought "get" would do that, but it's not installed (unless the
> > command is not get).
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> 
> fetch is what you want (fetch is in the base system).

Thank you Marc and everyone else who responded. I had forgotten about fetch. :)

It obviously worked like a dream.

...D


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