The Linux comes with many command-line tools, one of the important ones is Wget which provides networking functionality like Https, Http, Ftp, etc protocol. With wget we can download files from the internet to the local system.
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.20.3.darwin-amd64.pkg
The above command will download the go-installer zip to the current directory, to have a different name compared to the server pass -O flag.
wget -O go-installer https://go.dev/dl/go1.20.3.darwin-amd64.pkg
To download multiple files, there are 2 steps.
Step-1 create a new images.txt file, add the following urls.
https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/12/13/05/15/puppy-1903313__340.jpg
https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/01/05/17/51/maltese-1123016__340.jpg
https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/06/30/22/34/dog-5357794__340.jpg
wget -i images.txt
puppy340.jpg 100%[=========================>] 26.44K 93.0KB/s in 0.3s
maltea34.jpg 100%[=========================>] 50.81K --.-KB/s in 0.06s
dog-557.jpg 100%[=========================>] 30.59K --.-KB/s in 0.07s
To send the output to the terminal wget -O- [ REST URL ] us the following syntax.