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5 Basic CURL Command Examples - RoseHosting

This document provides 5 examples of basic cURL commands: 1) Check a URL, 2) Save a URL's output to a file, 3) Download files, 4) Get HTTP header information, and 5) Access an FTP server. cURL is a command line tool that can be used to transfer data to and from servers using various protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. The examples demonstrate how to view website content, save web pages locally, download files, view HTTP headers, and transfer files via FTP.

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5 Basic CURL Command Examples - RoseHosting

This document provides 5 examples of basic cURL commands: 1) Check a URL, 2) Save a URL's output to a file, 3) Download files, 4) Get HTTP header information, and 5) Access an FTP server. cURL is a command line tool that can be used to transfer data to and from servers using various protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. The examples demonstrate how to view website content, save web pages locally, download files, view HTTP headers, and transfer files via FTP.

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cURLisveryusefulcommandlinetooltotransferdatafromortoaserver.cURLsupportsvariousprotocols

likeFILE,HTTP,HTTPS,IMAP,IMAPS,LDAP,DICT,LDAPS,TELNET,FTP,FTPS,GOPHER,RTMP,

RTSP,SCP,SFTP,POP3,POP3S,SMB,SMBS,SMTP,SMTPS,andTFTP.

cURLcanbeusedinmanydifferentandinterestingways.Withthistoolyoucandownload,uploadandmanage

files,checkyouremailaddress,orevenupdateyourstatusonsomeofthesocialmediawebsitesorcheckthe

weatheroutside.InthisarticlewillcoverfiveofthemostusefulandbasicusesofthecURLtoolonanyLinux

VPS.

1.CheckURL
OneofthemostcommonandsimplestusesofcURListypingthecommanditself,followedbytheURLyou

wanttocheck

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curlhttps://domain.com

ThiscommandwilldisplaythecontentoftheURLonyourterminal

2.SavetheoutputoftheURLtoafile
TheoutputofthecURLcommandcanbeeasilysavedtoafilebyaddingtheooptiontothecommand,as

shownbelow

curlowebsitehttps://domain.com

%Total%Received%XferdAverageSpeedTimeTimeTimeCurrent
DloadUploadTotalSpentLeftSpeed
1004179304179300275k0::::::2.9M

Inthisexample,outputwillbesavetoafilenamedwebsiteinthecurrentworkingdirectory.

3.DownloadfileswithcURL
YoucandownlaodfileswithcURLbyaddingtheOoptiontothecommand.Itisusedforsavingfilesonthe

localserverwiththesamenamesasontheremoteserver

curlOhttps://domain.com/file.zip

Inthisexample,thefile.zipziparchivewillbedownloadedtothecurrentworkingdirectory.

YoucanalsodownloadthefilewithadifferentnamebyaddingtheooptiontocURL.

curloarchive.ziphttps://domain.com/file.zip

Thiswaythefile.ziparchivewillbedownloadedandsavedasarchive.zip.
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cURLcanbealsousedtodownloadmultiplefilessimultaneously,asshownintheexamplebelow

curlOhttps://domain.com/file.zipOhttps://domain.com/file2.zip

cURLcanbealsousedtodownloadfilessecurelyviaSSHusingthefollowingcommand

curluusersftp://server.domain.com/path/to/file

Notethatyouhavetousethefullpathofthefileyouwanttodownload

4.GetHTTPheaderinformationfromawebsite
YoucaneasilygetHTTPheaderinformationfromanywebsiteyouwantbyaddingtheIoption(capitali)to

cURL.

curlIhttp://domain.com

HTTP/1.1200OK
Date:Sun,16Oct201623:37:15GMT
Server:Apache/2.4.23(Unix)
XPoweredBy:PHP/5.6.24
Connection:close
ContentType:text/html;charset=UTF8

5.AccessanFTPserver
ToaccessyourFTPserverwithcURLusethefollowingcommand

curlftp://ftp.domain.comuserusername:password

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cURLwillconnecttotheFTPserverandlistallfilesanddirectoriesinusershomedirectory

YoucandownloadafileviaFTP

curlftp://ftp.domain.com/file.zipuserusername:password

anduploadafileottheFTPserver

curlTfile.zipftp://ftp.domain.com/userusername:password

YoucancheckcURLmanualpagetoseeallavailablecURLoptionsandfunctionalities

mancurl

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