How to cURL JAR from a remote url

Question

I have a JAR available for download from an HTTP URL, say http://somerepo.example.org/myjar-1.0.jar .

I need a cURL command that will load it into the current directory; my best attempt:

 curl -i -H "Accept: application/zip" -H "Content-Type: application/zip" -X GET http://somerepo.example.org/myjar-1.0.jar 

When I run this console, it is populated with binary spam and seems to cause my entire terminal to melt.

What is the correct cURL command to get JAR from remote URL?

Answer 1

You are almost there. By default, cURL will print to STDOUT. You want to redirect this to a file like this:

 curl -H "Accept: application/zip" http://somerepo.example.org/myjar-1.0.jar > myfile.jar 

You can also use the -o option:

 curl -H "Accept: application/zip" http://somerepo.example.org/myjar-1.0.jar -o myfile.jar 

You can also use wget

 wget http://somerepo.example.org/myjar-1.0.jar