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how to download a text file with curl

//this downloads the file specified
curl "http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt" --output macvendors.txt

download a file using curl

$  curl -o taglist.zip http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=7701
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 50243  100 50243    0     0   170k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  400k

download a file using curl

$ curl -O http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 28 3762k   28 1085k    0     0  72771      0  0:00:52  0:00:15  0:00:37 54267