It can also be used in scripts to automate either operation. This utility can both download and upload files to/from FTP sites on the web. If memory serves it's been there since Windows 98, and I can confirm that it is still there in Windows 8 RTM (you might have to go into appwiz.cpl and add/remove features to get it). If for some reason, you find yourself stuck in a time warp, using a machine that doesn't have PowerShell and you have zero access to a working web browser (that is, Internet Explorer is the only browser on the system, and its settings are corrupt), and your file is on an FTP site (as opposed to HTTP): start->run 'FTP', press 'OK'.

As posted in another answer it looks like you can download Wget all by itself, or you can grab it as a part of Cygwin or MSys. If PowerShell is an option, that's the preferred route, since you (potentially) won't have to install anything extra: (new-object ).DownloadFile('', 'C: mpile.txt')įailing that, Wget for Windows, as others have pointed out is definitely the second best option.

The primary advantage is that it is built into Powershell itself so this code will execute directly with no downloads or any other extra file creations are required to make it work on any modern version of Windows. This syntax will download the full contents of the target file azuredeploy.json to the local file newfile.json To get this to work properly in PowerShell the easiest way is to use variables and the -OutFile argument as shown here: They are similar but not the same which is why the above request does not work for us. As you can see, the curl command just calls the Invoke-WebRequest command. If you type in the command Get-Alias, it will give you a list of all the Aliases that are used in PowerShell. That you will just get the headers instead of the file itself.Īliases in PowerShell allow you to create shortcuts for longer commands so you don’t have to type them out all of the time. In the above instance, what will happen is You can type in a cURL command like one that downloads a file from aĪnd it will seem like it works but what it is actually doing is just Using Curl In Powershell (The Sociable Geek) No extra files or downloads are required to obtain wget functionality: It is also important to know that there are both wget and curl aliases built into all modern versions of Windows Powershell. You don't need the extra baggage of Cygwin and the likes, just one small EXE file. There are many flavors available- with and without SSL support.

There is a native cURL for Windows available here.

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