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From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Alternative to "get"? Trying to download a file via HTTP
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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).

Marc