Save file to specific folder with curl command - bash

Question

In a shell script, I want to download a file from some URL and save it to a specific folder. What is the specific CLI flag I should use to download files to a specific folder with the curl command, or how else do I get that result?

Answer 1

I don't think you can give a path to curl, but you can CD to the location, download and CD back.
cd target/path && { curl -O URL ; cd -; }
Or using subshell.
(cd target/path && curl -O URL)
Both ways will only download if path exists. -O keeps remote file name. After download it will return to original location.
If you need to set filename explicitly, you can use small -o option:
curl -o target/path/filename URL

Answer 2

The --output-dir option is available since curl 7.73.0:
curl --create-dirs -O --output-dir /tmp/receipes https://example.com/pancakes.jpg

Answer 3

curl doesn't have an option to that (without also specifying the filename), but wget does. The directory can be relative or absolute. Also, the directory will automatically be created if it doesn't exist.
wget -P relative/dir "$url"
wget -P /absolute/dir "$url"

Answer 4

it works for me:
curl http://centos.mirror.constant.com/8-stream/isos/aarch64/CentOS-Stream-8-aarch64-20210916-boot.iso --output ~/Downloads/centos.iso
where:
--output allows me to set up the path and the naming of the file and extension file that I want to place.

Answer 5

Use redirection:
This works to drop a curl downloaded file into a specified path:
curl https://download.test.com/test.zip > /tmp/test.zip
Obviously "test.zip" is whatever arbitrary name you want to label the redirected file- could be the same name or a different name.
I actually prefer #oderibas solution, but this will get you around the issue until your distro supports curl version 7.73.0 or later-

Answer 6

For powershell in Windows, you can add relative path + filename to --output flag:
curl -L http://github.com/GorvGoyl/Notion-Boost-browser-extension/archive/master.zip --output build_firefox/master-repo.zip
here build_firefox is relative folder.

Answer 7

Use wget
wget -P /your/absolut/path "https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-42.3.3.jar"

Answer 8

For Windows, in PowerShell, curl is an alias of the cmdlet Invoke-WebRequest and this syntax works:
curl "url" -OutFile file_name.ext
For instance:
curl "https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/2.2.5/docker-compose.yaml" -OutFile docker-compose.yaml
Source: https://krypted.com/windows-server/its-not-wget-or-curl-its-iwr-in-windows/

Answer 9

Here is an example using Batch to create a safe filename from a URL and save it to a folder named tmp/. I do think it's strange that this isn't an option on the Windows or Linux Curl versions.
#echo off
set url=%1%
for /r %%f in (%url%) do (
set url=%%~nxf.txt
curl --create-dirs -L -v -o tmp/%%~nxf.txt %url%
)
The above Batch file will take a single input, a URL, and create a filename from the url. If no filename is specified it will be saved as tmp/.txt. So it's not all done for you but it gets the job done in Windows.