OS X equivalent of Linux s wget

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How can I do an HTTP GET from a Un x shell script on a stock OS X system   installing third-party software is not an option  for this has to run on a lot of different systems which I don t have control on    For example if I start the Mercurial server locally doing a hg serve         hg serve    And then  from a Linux that has the wget command I do a wget          wget http   127 0 0 1 8000 --2010-12-31 22 18 25--  http   127 0 0 1 8000  Connecting to 127 0 0 1 8000    connected  HTTP request sent  awaiting response    200 Script output follows Length  unspecified  text html  Saving to   index html   And on the terminal in which I launched the  hg serve  command  I can indeed see that an HTTP GET made its way   127 0 0 1 - -  30 Dec 2010 22 18 17   GET   HTTP 1 0  200 -   So on Linux one way to do an HTTP GET from a shell script is to use wget  if that command is installed of course    What other ways are there to do the equivalent of a wget   I m looking  in particular  for something that would work on stock OS X installs

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You can either build wget on the mac machine or use MacPorts to install it directly.

sudo port install wget

This would work like a charm, also you can update to the latest version as soon as it's available. Port is much more stable than brew, although has a lot less number of formula and ports.

You can install MacPorts from https://www.macports.org/install.php you can download the .pkg file and install it.

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You could use curl instead  It is installed by default into  usr bin

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Use curl   curl http   127 0 0 1 8000 -o index html

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Here s the Mac OS X equivalent of Linux s wget   For Linux  for instance Ubuntu on an AWS instance  use   wget http   example com textfile txt   On a Mac  i e  for local development  use this   curl http   example com textfile txt -o textfile txt   The -o parameter is required on a Mac for output into a file instead of on screen  Specify a different target name for renaming the downloaded file   Use capital -O for renaming with wget  Lowercase -o will specify output file for transfer log

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1  on your mac type  nano  usr bin wget   2  paste the following in     bin bash curl -L  1 -o  2   3  close then make it executable  chmod 777  usr bin wget   That s it

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Curl has a mode that is almost equivalent to the default wget   curl -O  lt url gt    This works just like  wget  lt url gt    And  if you like  you can add this to your  bashrc   alias wget  curl -O    It s not 100  compatible  but it works for the most common wget usage  IMO

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wget Precompiled Mac Binary  For those looking for a quick wget install on Mac  check out Quentin Stafford-Fraser s precompiled binary here  which has been around for over a decade   https   statusq org archives 2008 07 30 1954  MD5 for 2008 wget zip  24a35d499704eecedd09e0dd52175582 MD5 for 2005 wget zip  c7b48ec3ff929d9bd28ddb87e1a76ffb  No make install port brew curl junk  Just download  install  and run  Works with Mac OS X 10 3-10 12

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Instead of going with equivalent  you can try  brew install wget  and use wget   You need to have brew installed in your mac

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brew install wget  Homebrew is a package manager for OSX analogous to yum  apt-get  choco  emerge  etc   Be aware that you will also need to install Xcode and the Command Line Tools   Virtually anyone who uses the command line in OSX will want to install these things anyway   If you can t or don t want to use homebrew  you could also   Install wget manually   curl -   http   ftp gnu org gnu wget wget-1 17 1 tar xz  -o  wget tar xz  tar xf wget tar xz cd wget-1 17 1   configure --with-ssl openssl -with-libssl-prefix  usr local ssl  amp  amp  make -j8  amp  amp  make install   Or  use a bash alias   function  wget     curl    1   -o   basename    1         alias wget   wget

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I m going to have to say curl http   127 0 0 1 8000 -o outfile

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