download binary file with curl code example
Example 1: 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
Example 2: 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
Example 3: 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