How to cURL a JAR from remote URL

Question

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

I need a cURL command that will download it to

Answer 1

You are almost there. By default cURL will output the download to STDOUT. You want to redirect this to a file like so:

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 should also be able to use wget

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