Linux – How to download a file from URL in Linux

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Usually one would download a file with a URL ending in the file extension.

To download Ubuntu ISO, one would simple 

wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.3/ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso

However, I came accross a site that I suspect uses ASP.Net / IIS.

A link to a ISO is in this form (I removed link contents incase of … policies):

http://some.ip.in.here/website.com/IMAGENAME.ISO?md5=hUhpyFjk7zEskw06ZhrWAQ&expires=1454811899

I am not sure how to download this since it has the MD5 and expiry time as parameters, and so wget only downloads a web page, not this ISO.

Any suggestions?

Best Answer

Use 

wget "http://some.ip.in.here/website.com/IMAGENAME.ISO?md5=hUhpyFjk7zEskw06ZhrWAQ&expires=1454811899"

Explanation: There is "&" character in the url. On linux and alike systems, this makes it a background process. Solution it to enclose url in double quoutes (") so that its treated as one argument.

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