How to use curl to download file in linux

description

Download files through curl in the linux system. In the test command, we download the latest version of git through the curl command.

command

curl -O https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.9.5.tar.gz

parameter

curl :  is a file transfer tool that works from the command line using URL syntax
-O, --remote-name :  write output to a file named remote file

result

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 5789k  100 5789k    0     0  30038      0  0:03:17  0:03:17 --:--:-- 36449

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