2009
06.15

Download a file / folder using mac terminal and curl

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Simply use the following command:

curl -O http://www.yoursite.com/backup/mybackup.tar.gz

Will simply download the file to your local machine and your current location.

To change the current location on your local machine firstly you can find out where you are by hittng ‘ls’ which will list all possible directories and files. Then you can cd into whichever the directory is that you want to end up in.

For example ‘cd Desktop/Backups/’

Then when you run the command it will end up in your current location. If you mess up or want to move that file at a later date you can use the following command:

‘mv  myfile.tar.gz   newlocation’

Hopefully this helps someone.

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  1. Dr. Sage said: 2009.12.17 20:05

    Thanks a lot. I really needed to back up my site badly.

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