A command to download a file other than Wget

Question

My host allows limited access to SSH and Linux commands. However, I can't use Wget believe it or not.

I was hoping for something to download a file (.flv) from another server. Is there another command I can try?

If there isn't, I could probably make use of Python, Perl or PHP (favourite) to achieve a file download. Is it possible?

Answer 1

CURL

Answer 2

lynx -source

Answer 3

Is curl installed?

Answer 4

If you're trying to download a file from a host you have authenticated access to, try using scp. It's like a normal copy but it is done through an ssh tunnel. I've found that hosts who allow "limited ssh" often still allow scp.

scp [email protected]:folder/file.flv ./

You will need to provide your user credentials. See scp documentation for more information.

Answer 5

curl -C - -O http://www.url.com

Answer 6

Another tool that's out there that does similar stuff is snarf.

Answer 7

echo -ne "GET /path/to/file HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.somesite.com\r\n\r\n" | nc www.somesite.com 80 | perl -pe 'BEGIN { while (<>) { last if $_ eq "\r\n"; } }'

Answer 8

Various ways,

1. Python -- How not to fetch data over HTTP
2. Perl -- File::Fetch module
3. TCL -- ::http::geturl, has example at the end
4. If you have the compiler and FTP works, get wget and compile it

Answer 9

Python script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os,sys,urllib
f = open (os.path.basename (sys.argv[1]), 'w')
f.write (urllib.urlopen (sys.argv[1]).read ())
f.close ()

where sys.argv[1] is the URL you're interested in.

Answer 10

Another possible alternative is aria2.

Answer 11

I've been using: curl -o http://www.domain.com/file.flv

Answer 12

Use scp.

usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
[-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
[[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2