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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:50:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>
To:        "Danny" <nocmonkey@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alternative to 'get'? Trying to download a file via HTTP
Message-ID:  <1731.209.167.16.15.1092257455.squirrel@209.167.16.15>
In-Reply-To: <addc34c6040811132964cf8785@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <addc34c6040811132964cf8785@mail.gmail.com>

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> 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?

...also:

# wget http://www.server.com/dir/file.tar.gz

or:

# wget -b http://www.server.com/dir/file.tar.gz

to run it in the background.

Steve

>
> Thank you,
>
> ...D
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