Ubuntu Using curl to download an image

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I want to download an image accessible from this link  https   www python org static apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png into my local system  Now  I m aware that the curl command can be used to download remote files through the terminal  So  I entered the following in my terminal in order to download the image into my local system   curl https   www python org static apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png   However  this doesn t seem to work  so obviously there is some other way to download images from the Internet using curl  What is the correct way to download images using this command

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Create a new file called files txt and paste the URLs one per line  Then run the following command   xargs -n 1 curl -O  lt  files txt   source  https   www abeautifulsite net downloading-a-list-of-urls-automatically

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For those who don t have nor want to install wget  curl -O  capital  o   not a zero  will do the same thing as wget   E g  my old netbook doesn t have wget  and is a 2 68 MB install that I don t need   curl -O https   www python org static apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png

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For ones who got permission denied for saving operation  here is the command that worked for me     curl https   www python org static apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png --output py png

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curl without any options will perform a GET request   It will simply return the data from the URI specified  Not retrieve the file itself to your local machine   When you do     curl https   www python org static apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png   You will receive binary data                         gt      lt R HP T  Pm Z  jU   ZP UAUQ      X   K    gt 0c yF i  4   V   H   nO   I  vg     -Hm  N0      Y  L U3   9  P T 0 u8 l 4       In order to save this  you can use     curl https   www python org static apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png  gt  image png   to store that raw image data inside of a file   An easier way though  is just to use wget     wget https   www python org static apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png   ls      apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png

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If you want to keep the original name     use uppercase -O  curl -O https   www python org static apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png  If you want to save remote file with a different name     use lowercase -o  curl -o myPic png https   www python org static apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed png

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