Once again, we can show this using an example. We will be downloading two HTML files from two different websites. For better understanding, please look at the image below:. Here filename refers to the name that you want to address the file as. Using this, we can also change the type of the file. This is shown in the image below:. Wget also allows users to recursively download their files which is basically downloading all the files from the website under a single directory.
For more information regarding Wget, users can input the following command into the terminal to get access to all the Wget commands that appear to be available:. Curl is another command line tool that can be used to download files from the internet.
Unlike Wget, which is command line only, features of Curl are powered by libcurl which is a cross-platform URL transfer library. Curl not only allows downloading of files but can also be used for uploading and exchanging of requests with servers.
However, Curl does not support recursive downloads which Wget offers. Similarly, like Wget, Curl comes pre-installed with most of the Linux Distributions. This can simply be checked by running the following command:. Just like Wget, Curl has multiple features incorporated inside of it.
The most basic is its ability to allow users to download files from a single URL from the internet. For better understanding, we will be downloading a simple image in the png format from the internet just like in the case of Wget. Curl also allows users to change the filename and the type of the file. This can be done by the following command:. In the image above, we took a png file originally named pancake1.
Just like in the case of Wget, Curl allows users to download multiple files using a number of URLs from the internet. For our example, we will use curl to download a jpg file and a png file from the internet. Results are shown in the image below:. A pretty amazing feature that Curl provides to its users is its ability to monitor the progress of the download of the file.
For more information regarding Curl, users can input the following command into the terminal to get access to all the Curl commands that appear to be available:. Wget and Curl are among the wide range of command line tools that Linux offers for the downloading of files.
Both offer a huge set of features that cater to different needs of the users. Lastly, now that we know the checksum was created by the Linux Mint maintainers, run the following command to generate a checksum from the downloaded.
You can also run the checksum commands directly on an. You can then just check it matches the valid checksum by looking at both with your eyes. Select the. You can now check if the downloaded checksum file was signed with one of the key files you imported.
Select the downloaded checksum file. This is the way PGP is designed to work—you meet and exchange keys in person, for example, and piece together a web of trust. However, you can view more details and confirm that the checksum file was signed with one of the keys you imported.
This is much better than just trusting a downloaded ISO file without checking, anyway. Kleopatra will generate a checksum from the downloaded. You can open both of these files—the downloaded checksum file and the one you just generated—in a text editor like Notepad. Confirm the checksum is identical in both with your own eyes. However, this still provides much more assurance than just using an ISO file without checking it at all.
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