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What is the command to download from a link in gentoo?

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Orius
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject: What is the command to download from a link in gentoo?

i looked everwhere and cant seem to find the command to download in linux. something like : <command> <link here> <location to download to> and it starts downloading.

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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 8:55 pm Post subject:

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maybe you are looking for "wget" ?

like from a console:

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wget ftp://distro.org/release/12.x/base/somefile.iso /home/me/downloads

works for http too.

man wget

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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 9:05 pm Post subject:

thanks much

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