Show a progress bar for long downloads. wget gives a great built-in bar; curl needs an explicit flag.
Bash
# wget — best progress bar by default
wget -c -O big.zip https://example.com/big.zip
# -c : resume partial downloads
# -O : output filename
# curl — progress bar via -#
curl -L -# -O https://example.com/big.zip
# -# : show a # progress bar (instead of full stats)
# -O : keep remote filename
# -L : follow redirects
# curl with --resume to continue an interrupted download
curl -L -C - -O https://example.com/big.zip # -C - = resume from end of local file
# axel for parallel chunks (faster on high-latency links — must be installed)
axel -n 8 https://example.com/big.zipSave your own code snippets
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