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If you want to download a file with curl type the following code into bash:

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curl -O http://www.url.de/file.html

-O means to output to a file and not to stdout, normally the screen.

What if you need to resume a download of a big file?

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curl -C - -O http://www.url.de/file.html

With -C – you continue downloading the current file. If is important to write -C -. Don’t forget the -

You can also set a referrer and the user agent.

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curl -C - -O -A http://www.url.de -e "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6" http://www.url.de/file.html

With -A you can set the referrer and -e sets the user agent.

Pretty helpful.