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macOS: How to Download File From URL Using Terminal on Mac

In our next Terminal tip, we’ll show you how to download files from the web. Of course it’s probably easier just to use the GUI of Safari , but using Terminal gives you additional stats like file size, remaining time, download speed, and received memory.

How to Download File From URL Using Terminal on Mac

You only need one simple command to get started:

Make sure the letter O is capitalized. After you type curl -O, just paste the URL of the file you want to download. Don’t include the “<>” either, that’s just an insertion point. Your download will start immediately.

You won’t find them in the Downloads folder though. They will show up in your home directory. You can find this by opening Finder,  then click on the house icon with your name next to it.

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Thank you for the help! Im going through the Kali lInux PDF Book and it generally uses linux examples. I recommend for anyone downloading external links to check the integrity of the mirror it’s downloaded from. In this Link on Page 16 of the actual Book it goes in depth on how to secure your downloads! Just in case anyone wants to dig more into terminal. https://kali.training/downloads/Kali-Linux-Revealed-1st-edition.pdf

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How to Install Safari on Linux

When you think of the major web browsers, chances are that Apple’s Safari features somewhere on your list. However, despite its popularity, Safari has never been officially released for Linux – particularly strange considering macOS and Linux both have historical ties to UNIX.

If you’re a Linux user and a web developer and need to provide support for the Safari browser, the good news is that there are some workarounds to get Safari up and running on Linux. Although you’ll be restricted to Safari 5, this version still has everything you need for surfing the Web.

Installing Safari Browser on Linux

How to install wine, installing safari using wine, installing safari using playonlinux, using the safari install wizard in linux, installing a safari theme for firefox in linux, converting firefox through white sur gtk, frequently asked questions.

Also read: Safari Not Working on Your iPhone? Here’s How to Fix It

There are two potential workarounds for installing Safari on Linux: using WINE (the compatibility layer, not the drink) or using WINE and PlayOnLinux , which provides a graphical user interface (UI) for WINE.

As an added bonus, you can use WINE and PlayOnLinux to install many other Windows applications beside Safari.

WINE is one of the most well-known Linux packages and is found in most Software Center/Package managers. In Ubuntu (or Ubuntu-based distro), you can install WINE with the following command:

One thing to note is that the WINE version in Ubuntu is pretty outdated. If you want to get the latest stable version of WINE, do the following:

• Add the WINE key.
• Add the repository.

The above command is for Ubuntu 21.10 (impish). If you are using version other than Ubuntu 21.10, change the name accordingly (like “bionic,” “xenial,” etc.)

• Update the system:
• Lastly, install the stable version of WINE.

WINE will now be installed. For more information, refer to our guide on installing WINE on Linux .

Also read: 5 Tricks to Speed Up Compile Times in Gentoo Linux

Before downloading Safari, we need to create a download and build directory.

• Open a Terminal window and run the following commands:
• Download Safari using a wget command:
• Once the download is complete, launch Safari Setup using the following:
• At this point you may be prompted to download some additional software, such as Mono or Gecko. If prompted, click “Install” and wait for these packages to download.
• Once you have all the necessary supporting software, the Safari Installer should launch automatically.

Once you’ve completed the standard Safari setup, the web browser will be installed, and you can start using Safari on Linux!

WINE isn’t always the most user-friendly software, so you may want to consider installing PlayOnLinux, which provides a graphical user interface for the underlying WINE code.

• To install PlayOnLinux, use the following command:
• You can now find PlayOnLinux in your Applications menu.
• In the PlayOnLinux window, select “Install a program.”

• Enter “Safari” in the search bar.

• When the web browser appears, select it and click “Install.”
• Read the disclaimer, and if you accept it, click “Next -> Next.”

The Safari installer will be downloaded to your computer.

Also read: How to Install Zoom on Linux

Once PlayOnLinux is installed, It will display a custom installation wizard that will guide you through the installation of Safari.

• The screen will show a brief summary of the installer’s maintainer as well as where it will install the browser.

• Press “Next” to begin the installation process. The installer will first create a sandbox where it will install a version of WINE that is compatible with Safari in Linux.

• In some cases, PlayOnLinux will ask if you want to install the optional WINE Mono package. This is a compatibility layer that ensures .NET programs have the required DLL files to work properly. If you receive this message, press “Install.”

• PlayOnLinux will also ask you if you want to install the optional WINE Gecko package. Similar to Mono, this will provide a more seamless compatibility with the Safari browser. Once again, press “Install.”
• The wizard will ask whether you want to use a custom binary or download the installer. Select “Download the program,” then press “Next.”

• PlayOnLinux will run the Safari installer, and you can proceed with the standard browser installation process.
• Be sure to uncheck both the “Install Bonjour for Windows” and “Automatically update Safari” options during the install.

While using a native Safari 5 client in Linux can be helpful for some users. This particular version of the browser can present some issues, especially if you are visiting modern websites. This is mostly because the Safari 5 browser no longer receives new updates from Apple.

As a result, using this version of Safari can result in either broken or insecure websites. For example, it is not possible to access YouTube from a native Safari 5 client.

One way of dealing with this issue is to use a modern browser and convert it to look and feel like the Apple browser. For example, it is possible to take Firefox and theme it to look like the modern version of Safari.

Also read: How to Block and Allow Pop-ups on Safari

Converting Firefox to look like Safari is relatively simple with the WhiteSur-gtk theme for Firefox.

• Download the theme by either downloading the ZIP file from the author’s Github page or running the following command:

• Extract the repository’s ZIP file to the current working directory and go inside it by running the following commands:

• Run the initial install script, which will prepare all the necessary files and dependencies for your Firefox theme, by running the following command:
• Run the Firefox theme installer by typing the following:
• Doing this will, then, automatically copy all the necessary settings and configurations for your Firefox client.

It’s important to note that the installer will not run if Firefox is currently running. Once done, however, you can reload the browser to look at your converted Firefox instance.

If all this talk made you curious about what you can do more with Linux. You can check this article where we discuss how you can use sed for basic tasks.

Also read: How to Use Sed in Linux for Basic Shell Tasks

Is it possible to install Safari in Linux using the Mac installer?

Sadly, no. While it is possible to install DMG files in Linux, the native Safari browser for macOS is purpose built to only run for that operating system, as the browser uses Mac-specific functions which allow it to integrate well into macOS. For example, the Quick Note feature in Safari relies on external Apple programs to work properly.

I already have WINE installed. Is it alright to install PlayOnLinux on top of it?

Yes! By default, PlayOnLinux creates its own set of virtual drives where it places the custom WINE version that it uses. Because of that, it is safe to install PlayOnLinux alongside with a mainline version of WINE. For example, when you install Safari through PlayOnLinux, it creates a clean sandbox where it installs all the programs and WINE patches that it needs.

Further, this approach also means that removing a program that you previously installed through PlayOnLinux is incredibly simple: press “Right click” on the “Safari 5” entry in the main menu and select “Remove.”

Is it possible to remove the Safari theme and return Firefox to the default?

Yes! It is relatively simple to remove the Safari theme and revert your Firefox installation back to its default settings. First, go back to the White Sur directory that you extracted. From there, you then need to type the following command: ./tweaks.sh -f -r && ./install.sh -u .

Doing that will allow you to remove all the Safari-related files for Firefox as well as delete all theme files from your machine. With that done, the last thing that you need to do is to restart the browser to reload your default settings.

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Where to download just the Safari dmg/pkg

• Thread starter myitrumors
• Start date Sep 14, 2021
• Tags mojave safari
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• macOS Mojave (10.14)

macrumors newbie

• Sep 14, 2021

The internet traffic between our managed macOS Mojave laptops and the Apple Software Updates website is blocked for security reasons. So I can not use the regular System Preferences - Software Update to update native macOS software. This is not an issue for me, because every time Apple release a Software Update, I wait a week or so and I visit the following URL https://support.apple.com/downloads and I download the specific package (in .dmg format), I save the .dmg package into a USB Stick and I update the macOS laptops and I am good to go. Now, the problem is that Apple just released an important security update https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212808 just for Safari 14.1.2. My question is since that I believe this time it is just Safari the issue, is Apple going to publish just the Safari .dmg package update on the regular https://support.apple.com/downloads website? If not, how can I download just the Safari 14.1.2 in .dmg/.pkg format so I can install into our macOS Mojave laptops? Thank you so much in advance for your help.  

macrumors 601

I'm not sure of the answer to your question, but I just wanted to say I think that's bizarre that your company thinks Apple's software update server is not secure. Why are they making employees jump through hoops to keep their OS updated and secure?  

macrumors 68040

Just wait a week like you normally would and download from the downloads site. The world will not end in 7-10 days without the update. You are best to wait a week anyway in case it $#%&'s up your machine (which is more common these days).  

myitrumors said: The internet traffic between our managed macOS Mojave laptops and the Apple Software Updates website is blocked for security reasons. So I can not use the regular System Preferences - Software Update to update native macOS software. Click to expand...

@MarkC426 thank you so much. I was under the impression that security updates like Safari for example are not published at that URL Apple Support Download. But if you say yes, well then case solved ;-)  

macrumors 6502a

• Sep 15, 2021

Have you tried the softwareupdate command in Terminal? softwareupdate -l to list available updates. Each update will have a couple of lines. You want the update listed on the line with the asterisk. Be sure to quote the update name when you download it, like this softwareupdate -d "update name" . You will find the resulting download in /Library/Updates. Safari updates do show and are downloadable using this process. I just downloaded the Safari security update (.pkg file) mentioned by the OP.  

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• Sep 24, 2021

Today apple re-released Safari 14.1.2 for Mojave (same version, different build number). Old build number 14611.3.10.1.5 New build number: 14611.3.10.1.7 Here is the link for the new one: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...ntefzkmvjhdqzvllb2/Safari14.1.2MojaveAuto.pkg  

There’s a better way to install software on your Mac

If you've never opened the Mac Terminal, now's the time.

By Justin Pot | Published Apr 21, 2022 8:00 AM EDT

I install most software from my Mac’s Terminal. I think you should do the same on yours. Yeah, I know, I know—that sounds hard. But, in many ways, it’s actually easier than the traditional way of installing software on your Mac. A lot of great free programs—open-source ones in particular—aren’t available in the Mac App Store. The usual installation process involves:

• Finding the app’s website
• Finding the download for Mac
• Downloading the app, typically in a DMG archive
• Opening the DMG archive after the download finishes
• Dragging the app icon from the mounted archive to the applications folder

Nothing about this is difficult, but it is time-consuming. Imagine if instead you could type three words, hit enter, and let your computer do everything for you. This is possible, thanks to Homebrew, a program that will let you install almost any application you can think of by typing “brew install” followed by the name of the app. 

Why you should use Homebrew

If you never open the Terminal, that makes sense—it’s a little hidden. You can find it in Launchpad under Utilities , in Finder in Applications > Utilities , or by using Spotlight to search for it (just click the magnifying glass in the menu bar and type “terminal”, then hit enter or click the top result). 

There’s a real joy in simply telling your computer to do something and watching it happen, but the Terminal doesn’t explain itself the way other software does. I think Homebrew is the best tool for Mac users to get started with, because it’s so much better than installing software the old-fashioned way. 

• It’s faster : As outlined above, for most applications you can type three words and watch an app install itself. 
• It’s safer : Googling the name of an application and installing it isn’t necessarily secure. Downloading a free application from the wrong website is risky, and could result in you installing malware directly onto your computer. Installing from Homebrew removes some of this risk because a team of volunteers are finding the exact package you need. 
• Easier updates : Updating software is important , but sometimes it’s harder than it needs to be. Take Calibre, a free e-book manager which can do all sorts of e-reader tricks . This tool has frequent updates but no quick way to install them, meaning you have to download and install the update yourself every time. If you installed Calibre via Homebrew, though, you only need to type “brew update” to update every app you’ve installed using Homebrew

How to set up Homebrew

The simplest way to get started is to head to brew.sh , the Homebrew homepage, and follow the instructions. There’s a single line of code you will need to copy and then paste into the Terminal on your Mac. 

Hit enter and follow the instructions. 

You will be told about every change Homebrew will make to your system and asked to hit enter again. You might need to install Apple’s Command Line Tools, if you haven’t already. If so, this process will also be automated for you—just follow the instructions. 

How to install software using Homebrew

Now that Homebrew is on your Mac, you can use it to install software. Advanced users should check out the documentation —essentially a user manual—but if you’re not quite comfortable with the Terminal keep reading for a brief overview. Homebrew, like most Terminal applications, works by typing commands. The first word of the command is the name of the application, in this case “brew”. The second word is what you want the application to do, and the rest of the command will vary. So, for example, if you wanted to install Firefox , you would type “brew install firefox”. Like this: 

Then hit enter and watch as Firefox installs.

You’ll find the application just where you expect it: in the Applications folder.

Neat, right? And this works for thousands of applications . There are a few more tricks you can learn, too: 

• brew remove , followed by an app name, can be used to uninstall anything you installed using Homebrew
• brew search , followed by an app name, can be used to search the list of available applications, which is handy for finding the exact name you need
• brew update will check for new versions of all the software you’ve installed using Homewbrew 
• brew upgrade will install the latest version of every application you’ve installed using Homebrew 

There is a lot of nuance and detail I could get into, but I’d like this to remain an accessible beginner’s guide. I hope, though, that I’ve outlined enough for you to see how cool this little application is. Give it a shot, then dig into the documentation if you want to learn more. 

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Troubleshooting, how to download full macos installers from command line.

Mac users can download full complete MacOS installers directly from the command line. This is an incredibly useful feature particularly if you want to build USB boot drive installers, you manage multiple Macs, or you simply want to have full access to a complete installer application of MacOS for any other purpose.

With this particular trick, you can download complete “Install MacOS” application packages directly from the Terminal application, and it works to get full installers of macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra too.

This particular –fetch-full-installer flag for the command line softwareupdate tool is only available in MacOS Catalina 10.15 and later versions of MacOS, so if you’re trying to use this from Mojave or earlier it will not be available and you’d have to rely on other methods to download full macOS installers instead.

How to Download Full MacOS Installer from Mac Command Line

• Launch the Terminal application as usual, then use the following command syntax, replacing “**.**.*” with the installer version you wish to download:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version **.**.*

• Hit return to start downloading the full installer application of that version of MacOS

Remember to replace **.**.* with the version you want to download, for example to download the full macOS Catalina installer the syntax would be:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.15

The downloaded installer application of MacOS will appear in the /Applications directory of MacOS, just as if you had downloaded the installer from the Mac App Store or Software Update control panel.

Listing Available macOS Installers

From Terminal, issuing the following command will list out available macOS Installers for the Mac:

softwareupdate --list-full-installers

This may return something like:

Finding available software Software Update found the following full installers: * Title: macOS Monterey, Version: 12.0.1, Size: 12128428704K * Title: macOS Big Sur, Version: 11.6.1, Size: 12428472512K * Title: macOS Big Sur, Version: 11.6, Size: 12428553042K * Title: macOS Big Sur, Version: 11.5.2, Size: 12440916552K

Note that if you’re running an M1 Mac and issuing this command, the available software installers reported will not include versions that do not support M1 hardware.

Downloading Full macOS Big Sur 11.6,1 Installer Application

Want to download macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 as a complete installer application? Here would be the syntax for that:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 11.6.1

Downloading Full MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 Installer Application

For another example, to download the full installer of MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 (the last version of Mojave, absent any later security updates) then the syntax would be as follows:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.14.6

Downloading Full MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 Installer Application

To download the full installer of MacOS Catalina 10.15.3, then the syntax would be as follows:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.15.3

Downloading Full MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Installer Application

To download the full installer of MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6, then the syntax would be as follows:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.13.6

Presumably this feature will evolve over time to include future macOS system software versions to download too.

It does not appear that notably older versions of MacOS system software installers are available to download through this command, but if you find a way around that or have success, do let us know in the comments below.

The softwareupdate command line tool is quite powerful and we’ve discussed the utility various times before, as it can be used to do everything from hide MacOS Catalina updates , check for and install general MacOS and Mac OS X software updates from the command line , and more .

Note that you can also use third party tools to download full installer applications of MacOS, for example download a full Mojave installer with the dosdude tool , and High Sierra too . If you happen to be running macOS Mojave still, you can typically re-download MacOS Mojave directly from Mojave without any needed effort, however.

Were you able to download a complete MacOS installer application of Catalina or Mojave or another macOS system software release with this command line approach? Do you know of any other methods of obtaining full macOS installers? Share with us in the comments.

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Thanks for the tips and valuable info. These sort of things is what makes me dislike Apple… it used to be simpler and more straightforward to deal with Mac products, but it’s been several years now that one needs to know even more secret handshakes and magical workarounds.

The only problem with this tip is that Apple will “sniff” the model or mac being used to get the OS and won’t allow to get anything past what a mac model officially supports which means you can never use an older mac to download an unsupported OS so that you can install it on another mac or can keep it for later use on newer macs. Truly frustrating and nonsensical policy.

Thanks again for the article.

“Apple will sniff the model of mac being used to get the os…”

No kidding.. I have a 2012 MBA that I’m trying to resuscite, and the latest os version it will take is catalina, baring use of that patcher thingie, which I refuse to use. If I search on the store for “catalina”, I get squat, despite seeing a screenshot of the store on the webpage I found on google on how to get a copy of the full catalina. Seems the MBA I’m on is running Monterrey and what I see when searching the store for “catalina” is NOT the same as the screenshot. Fortuantly I found a site that shows how to get the full installer from the command line.. Since I prefer command line stuff, this was very useful.

Good info, thanks!

Big plus with this approach, it appears to be resume a previous/partial download instead of starting from scratch as the Software Update gui does, which is good when these massive downloads don’t complete cleanly.

Tom, you really should start your own tips! These are great! Better, in fact, and often. Thanks!

hi i tried this to download big sur but it stuck on 90%, any idea how to work this around?

this is what was written in the terminal: softwareupdate –fetch-full-installer –full-installer-version 11.6.1 Downloading and installing 11.6.1 installer SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 “(null)” SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 “(null)” Installing: 4.0%SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 “(null)” Installing: 90.0%

I thought this would have been faster but it’s taking just as long. LOL

I’m sure that many people have discovered this from the command line:

softwareupdate –help

usage: softwareupdate [ …]

** Manage Updates: -l | –list List all appropriate update labels (options: –no-scan, –product-types) -d | –download Download Only -i | –install Install … specific updates -a | –all All appropriate updates -R | –restart Automatically restart (or shut down) if required to complete installation. -r | –recommended Only recommended updates –os-only Only OS updates –safari-only Only Safari updates –stdinpass Password to authenticate as an owner. Apple Silicon only. –user Local username to authenticate as an owner. Apple Silicon only. –list-full-installers List the available macOS Installers –fetch-full-installer Install the latest recommended macOS Installer –full-installer-version The version of macOS to install. Ex: –full-installer-version 10.15 –install-rosetta Install Rosetta 2 –background Trigger a background scan and update operation

** Other Tools: –dump-state Log the internal state of the SU daemon to /var/log/install.log –evaluate-products Evaluate a list of product keys specified by the –products option –history Show the install history. By default, only displays updates installed by softwareupdate. –all Include all processes in history (including App installs)

** Options: –no-scan Do not scan when listing or installing updates (use available updates previously scanned) –product-types Limit a scan to a particular product type only – ignoring all others Ex: –product-types macOS || –product-types macOS,Safari –products A comma-separated (no spaces) list of product keys to operate on. –force Force an operation to complete. Use with –background to trigger a background scan regardless of “Automatically check” pref –agree-to-license Agree to the software license agreement without user interaction.

–verbose Enable verbose output –help Print this help

And if you type:

softwareupdate –list-full-installers

Finding available software Software Update found the following full installers: * Title: macOS Monterey, Version: 12.0.1, Size: 12128428704K, Build: 21A559 * Title: macOS Big Sur, Version: 11.6.1, Size: 12428472512K, Build: 20G224 * Title: macOS Big Sur, Version: 11.6, Size: 12428553042K, Build: 20G165 * Title: macOS Big Sur, Version: 11.5.2, Size: 12440916552K, Build: 20G95 * Title: macOS Catalina, Version: 10.15.7, Size: 8248854894K, Build: 19H2 * Title: macOS Catalina, Version: 10.15.6, Size: 8248781171K, Build: 19G2021 * Title: macOS Mojave, Version: 10.14.6, Size: 6038419486K, Build: 18G103

You can then do something like this, as stated in the article:

softwareupdate –fetch-full-installer –full-installer-version 11.6.1

Scanning for 11.6.1 installer Install finished successfully

That “Install”, as someone pointed out, simply creates an “install file” in your Applications directory that you can use to make a bootable flash drive.

nothing in Terminal Commands above worked to download Big Sur or Catalina as of nov 4, 2021.

It looks like Apple only keep the last version of the OS, currently I’m getting this (9 Nov 2021)

softwareupdate –fetch-full-installer –full-installer-version 11.6 Scanning for 11.6 installer Installing: 3.0%

Not sure it’s applicable, but on my Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to a 5,1 which is running Big Sur with the fantastic Opencore, the above list command ONLY shows the “supported” OS’s.

I only see High Sierra and Mojave.

I am trying to download a full installer (11.6x) as my system is currently stuck at 11.52. I don’t suppose there is a way to force this installer to show me ALL the updates?

How do you update the Catalina you installed with the DosDude1 Patcher, I can only download Catalina 10.15.7 build 19H2 ? security patches say not supported on this machine any kind of help please. I would like to put on 10.15.7 build 19H1419.

FYI, as of today July 7, 2021, the command below worked on my 2012 iMac running 10.15.7.

softwareupdate –fetch-full-installer –full-installer-version 10.15.7

The package “Install macOS Catalina” (8.26GB size) appeared in the Applications folder as expected. I did not try fetching older versions.

The softwareupdate cmd did not work on my MBP (Retina mid-2015) running High Sierra 10.13.6 instead returning the following:

Last login: Sun Jul 18 10:52:56 on console MacBook-Pro:~ name$ softwareupdate –fetch-full-installer –full-installer-version 10.15.7 usage: softwareupdate [ …] and a catalog of cmd info.

What did work was to use Chromium and not Safari.

Go to the Apple Support site “How to get old versions of macOS”

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683

There scroll down to the section, “Download macOS using Safari on your Mac” and copy the link “macOS Catalina 10.15”

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-catalina/id1466841314?mt=12

and paste it into Chromium and not Safari.

When you follow the link with Safari and you will proceed to the App Store and will see a button in the LEFT upper corner that says “Download”. Clicking this downloads a 19 MB file that does not work.

When you paste the Catalina link into Chromium and follow the link to the App Store, the page now has a blue button in the upper RIGHT corner that says “Get”. This link correctly DLs the 8+ GB installer. I then just followed the instruction for “How to create a bootable installer for macOS” following the instruction in section: “Use the ‘createinstallmedia’ command in Terminal”.

Remember: YMMV

A June 2021 update – to download a full OS installer for Catalina to my Applications folder using Terminal, I had to add a point seven, (.7) to the Unix command listed above – So, my tidbit is that “softwareupdate –fetch-full-installer –full-installer-version 10.15.7” did the trick. – The download, once it began in Terminal, took over 40 minutes. – Once the download ended, I was able to create a bootable USB drive by using the command, “sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/UNTITLED”

Tried Ravenblack suggestion on safari and worked flawlessly! Just copy the link on the page you get while clicking on “mac os catalina” on the apple support page and paste it on safari.

I had server problems to download the full installer version as Apple seems to restrict more an more the access to outdated OS versions.

I tried the Apple Support Website (link provided by PJ Thulin two posts below) but when clicking there on the version I wanted to download, I was redirected to the AppStore and a message popped up, telling me that the requested installer was not available at the moment.

Strangely, copying the corresponing link from the Apple Support Site into Google Chrome and opening the Appstore via that browser worked flawlessly. Still, a restriction is that your system needs to be theroretically able to install the OS you are trying to get. If not, you will see the OS in the Appstore, but it will not let you to download it.

Happy downloading as long as it works.

Does anyone know how to download a bootable catalina image while running Big Sur

Here’s the correct link for downloading old versions from Apple:

did not work from catalina. SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 “(null)” Install failed with error: Update not found

Big Sur 11.0.1 was released today but it is not working for that version.

Worked Great! Especially liked the Terminal download, which overcomes the “corrupt” message when trying to use previously-downloaded “aged” versions of macOS installers.

Outstanding article–best method of all the many I’ve done in the past. THANK YOU!!!

–Mark

HELP APPRECIATED — All prior versions have been wiped from the App store which is stupid. For the life of me I can’t find and installer for Mojave. I can’t believe I can’t find an easy way to download and install Mojave on an Apple computer, a fresh install I mean

I can’t even download OS X Sierra to a correctly Formatted USB for a clean install.

Why is it so frustrating trying to download an OS???

My Macbook Pro in an early 2011 model, Quad 2.2Ghz w/8 Gb memory.

I was able to download the Catalina and Mojave installers just fine, but High Sierra doesn’t seem to be available anymore. I tried 10.13.6, 10.13.5, and then just 10.13 to be safe…all returned “Install failed with error: Update not found.” It also won’t download from the App Store.

It appears that 10.15.5 broke the command: softwareupdate -d –fetch-full-installer –full-installer-version 10.15.5

It now gives the following error: SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFConstantString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 “(null)”

I was able to download 10.13.6 with the command line provided. It shows “installing” with a %, but all it does is downloading the installer to your application folder. It will NOT automatically install for you.

Just to make work the command `softwareupdate –fetch-full-installer –full-installer-version 10.14.6` getting the “too old” message, you have to change the time settings in your System Preferences. Set it to one year earlier. Then the download works.

greetings to all

For those who haven’t yet migrated to Catalina and need installers for previous versions of macOS, I found this page back in late October that has links to official Apple pages with installers from 10.15 Catalina back to 10.10 Yosemite. (Mountain Lion or Snow Leopard folks are out of luck.)

All the Apple support pages linked to here have the same format and ordering; the download link will be in Step 4.

* Original article: https://tidbits.com/2019/10/28/redownload-archived-macos-installers-to-address-expired-certificates/

* macOS 10.15 Catalina: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201475

* macOS 10.14 Mojave: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210190

* macOS 10.13 High Sierra: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969

* macOS 10.12 Sierra: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202

* OS X 10.11 El Capitan: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886

* OS X 10.10 Yosemite: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210717

An updated link for those who still need it: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211683

Well I have a mid 2012 Mac Pro 3.2Ghz Quad. In the App Store, it says that macOS Catalina works on my computer and I tried to download it from the App Store and for some odd reason it doesn’t show up on my download box. I got an updated graphic card that supports Metal. I don’t know what the issue is. However, I do have the latest macOS Mojave on my computer.

Tried to run this from my Mojave desktop at work to get an older disk image for another system here and received this message…

softwareupdate –fetch-full-installer –full-installer-version 10.14.6 softwareupdate: unrecognized option `–fetch-full-installer’ softwareupdate: unrecognized option `–full-installer-version’

If you actually read the article you’d see the command requires Catalina or later.

Is it meant for people who, after installing Catalina want to go back?

The easiest way to downgrade from Catalina to an earlier macOS release is to use Time Machine and just restore from a backup made prior to updating to Catalina.

You could use a Mojave installer to downgrade with a clean install, assuming the Mac is compatible with Mojave. I’m not sure if we’ve covered that before but perhaps we should. It’s basically a matter of formatting the Mac then reinstalling macOS Mojave (or earlier) with a USB boot installer. Generally speaking if the Mac ships with Catalina or later, it can’t run earlier MacOS versions though.

I suspect this tool gets most of its use from those who administer a variety of Macs and need to install older MacOS versions, or anyone who specifically wants to run older versions of Mac OS for whatever reason (either due to hardware limits, software compatibility, avoiding Catalina for a specific reason, etc).

This particular –fetch-full-installer flag for the command line softwareupdate tool is only available in MacOS Catalina 10.15 and later versions of MacOS, so if you’re trying to use this from Mojave or earlier it will not be available and you’d have to rely on other methods to download full macOS installers instead.

Currently running Catalina on MBP with Parallels installed…have downloaded the installer High Sierra 10.13.6 successfully, which shows up in my Launchpad. Want to create a virtual machine with Parallels, but unsure where to tell Parallels to look for the file. Any advice?

Usually Parallels and other VMs have some means of accessing the host and the VM, sometimes even drag and drop, or a shared folder that crosses between the VM and the host, you’d probably want to copy the installer file into that directory and access it there.

If the installer is in Launchpad on the VM it’s likely in the VM /Applications directory, I think Parallels supports drag and drop so you may be able to simply drag it out of the VM to your host OS to copy it over.

tried these running Catalina 10.15.4. none of them worked. they all end “install failed with error. Update not found”

I agree, I’d like to do a download, not an install. but these commands don’t appear to function on the latest version of Catalina, even though the article says “only works on newest versions of macOS”

I get the same error. Is there a way to -d download only the full installer? If not, what’s the process for just downloading the 6GB file: I think it would need -d NAME, but what’s the name for the 10.15.4 file? cheers,

This won’t work for older versions of the OS that are deemed incompatible (by Apple) for your system.

Where this becomes a big problem is (as a good example) developers that need to download old versions of the OS for testing. I don’t see a way around this using the above; is there? Can someone comment.

Hi The download works well but I get the ‘too old’ message. I have tried every method I could find to downgrade from Catalina which won’t run old photoshop etc. I’ve made bootable Mojave that wont boot – ‘too old’ again. If only I could take the system out of my iMac Pro & restart from an external drive… Any advice really appreciated! JL

What is the ‘too old’ message you reference?

If the Mac shipped with Catalina it usually won’t be able to run Mojave or earlier. Likewise if the Mac is too old it won’t be able to run newer MacOS versions.

I’ve had the same problem with my MBPro. So I went to an Apple store and they just plugged my MacBook into their server system and within 15min or so I had my old system back.

You’ll have to lug your MPro to a store, but it is the only way that worked for me to downgrade.

Don’t forget to make a backup before

10.15 and 10.15.3 “Update not found” Mojave and High Sierra work

While this may have its uses you could also just download the required full installers from Apple directly.

https://support.apple.com/en_US/downloads/macos

Unfortunately those offered from that page are only combo and package installers for software updates, and not full installers for MacOS. To get full macOS installers you must use the App Store or the command line method detailed here.

I have MacBook Pro running Catalina and am downloading the MacOS 10.13.6 for my iMac (all it can handle) In terminal it shows Downloading and installing. I don’t want to install on the MacBook Pro just download to have for the iMac if needed. What good is that to download and install? Can’t make a Boot Installer USB.

Hi, same applies to me. When it said “downloading and installing xx%”, I cancelled the task. I didn’t want to install Mojave over Catalina, just wanted to keep Mojave for my other Mac ;-)

Your suggestions throw errors on High Sierra.

As the article mentions, this feature is only available in newer macOS releases.

Did not work for me either from installed 10.13.6 iMac

Correct, the intro to the article discusses how the capability for downloading full installers by command line is only available in newer macOS releases:

“This particular –fetch-full-installer flag for the command line softwareupdate tool is only available in MacOS Catalina 10.15 and later versions of MacOS, so if you’re trying to use this from Mojave or earlier it will not be available and you’d have to rely on other methods to download full macOS installers instead.”

It’d be nice if prior versions had the functionality too, but they do not and will need to download Mac OS installers from the App Store instead.

So with my MacBook Pro running Catalina how do I get an older OS which the article is saying you can do for my iMac? I can get it downloading but it also says installing which I don’t want to do, just want to save the installer for further use on different Mac.

The non-subtle difference between “in” and “for.”

My bad. Thanks for the correction.

Another great tip – because good luck searching in the app store for older installers. ;) thank you

I tried the installer download this afternoon and tried with both “10.15.4” and then “10.15”. Both gave an error- Downloading and installing 10.15.4 installer Install failed with error: Update not found

I am still using bash for Terminal, i’ve not done the update to zsh. I don’t know if that would make any difference… .

While on the zsh topic, I’d love to know if it’s a good idea to move on to zsh, or if I should stay with bash. I copy and paste terminal commands, so pretty much everything I do in terminal comes from articles like this and I do not really know, for example, if using a bash command in zsh may lead to destruction of the computer. If you have anything to say, i think that’d be a great article for your readers.

Hi Joel, I was using bash and it was downloading on my MacBook Pro running Catalina, however I killed it because I wanted to download High Sierra for my iMac to have a copy or make a bootable USB. It showed downloading and installing which would have down graded my MacBook to High Sierra. Sucks you can’t just save a copy.

“install” just creates the installer (copies the installer files in-place), and leaves it in your Applications folder. The installer does not run at that point, and your existing system is perfectly safe. And the saved installer app remains safe in your Applications folder, available for you to use as you wish.

What would be the most appropriate version of MacOS for a MacBook Air (11 inches, mid 2013) ?

This will be a matter of opinion, and what the needs of the particular machine are.

I personally use Mavericks on a 2012 MacBook Air and it runs great, I find the performance good and the older UI style to be easier on the eyes when using a non-retina display. I think El Capitan, Sierra, and Mojave are mostly OK as well when updated to their most recent versions (only Mojave is still supported by security updates however). But again, this may depend on what your hardware use case is. Backup the Mac and any important data and then you’ll be able to try out different OS releases on the machine if you want to and don’t mind going through formatting and installing.

The 11″ MacBook Air is a great ultra-portable computer, I wish they still made that size!

I guess that the reason why the 11″ Macbook Air was discontinued was/is because of the screen size in the iPad Pro.

Did not work for me, sorry. Patrick

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Each version of Playwright needs specific versions of browser binaries to operate. You will need to use the Playwright CLI to install these browsers.

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Install browsers ​

Playwright can install supported browsers. Running the command without arguments will install the default browsers.

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The VS Code test runner runs your tests on the default browser of Chrome. To run on other/multiple browsers click the play button's dropdown from the testing sidebar and choose another profile or modify the default profile by clicking Select Default Profile and select the browsers you wish to run your tests on.

Choose a specific profile, various profiles or all profiles to run tests on.

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How to download files from command line in Windows like wget or curl

How can I download something from the web directly without Internet Explorer or Firefox opening Acrobat Reader/Quicktime/MS Word/whatever?

I'm using Windows, so a Windows version of Wget would do.

• Just right clicking a file and hitting "Save Target As" or "Save Link As" or "Save As" (language varies depending on your browser) will work. –  BrainSlugs83 Oct 22, 2012 at 5:53
• 28 The point of having a command is being able to write a batch file and run it (perhaps scheduled as a task) anytime you want. That's where the GUI falls short. –  Jbm Nov 15, 2012 at 14:11
• 7 How do you download with MS Word? –  Jaime Hablutzel Aug 20, 2014 at 12:16
• 7 @JaimeHablutzel Why would you ever want to download something via MS Word? MS Word is not a terminal. –  Braden Best May 14, 2015 at 20:53
• 1 @SDsolar Or just upvote/improve this answer below. –  Franklin Yu Nov 13, 2017 at 19:32

21 Answers 21

Wget for Windows should work.

From the Wget Wiki FAQ :

GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the background, after having logged off.

From this section of FAQ , download links are suggested:

Windows Binaries courtesy of Jernej Simončič: http://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/ from sourceforge: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm [...]

Link with courtesy of Jernej Simončič is used instead.

• 9 There's also Winwget cybershade.us/winwget if you prefer a gui –  Col Aug 19, 2009 at 11:47
• 14 The standalone version is downloadable from this link . –  Vito Gentile Feb 24, 2014 at 11:19
• 6 More recent, even up-to-date (as of today) Windows builds , provided by Jernej Simončič –  Gras Double Feb 16, 2015 at 19:37
• 1 @cixelsyd Updated link to alternative source. –  user109256 Nov 21, 2015 at 11:11
• 2 eternallybored.org/misc/wget/ is flagged by enterprise antivirus on my system. Carbon Black / Bit 9. Probably false positive. But sourceforge one runs. Does not support sslv3. –  TamusJRoyce Jan 12, 2018 at 5:22

An alternative I discovered recently, using PowerShell:

It works as well with GET queries.

If you need to specify credentials to download the file, add the following line in between:

A standard windows credentials prompt will pop up. The credentials you enter there will be used to download the file. You only need to do this once for all the time you will be using the $client object.

• 110 You can also do it in one-line: (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://www.xyz.net/file.txt','C:\tmp\file.txt') –  schellack Oct 14, 2011 at 20:32
• 16 @Rob powershell is built in to Windows... –  nhinkle Dec 14, 2012 at 4:22
• 10 From Vista up, yes. –  Arran Dec 19, 2012 at 12:44
• 3 @BrainSlugs83, absolutely, but many, many , people are still using XP. It's merely something to bear in mind. –  Arran May 7, 2013 at 8:08
• 4 @BrainSlugs83, you underestimate the amount of people still on older Windows systems. I don't understand the issue, I pointed out it's only on Vista upwards. People can choose to ignore it, or say "hey thanks!", but you....? If you have an issue, create a chat and we can talk. Someone with rep (like you) should realise here is not the place for this discussion. –  Arran Jun 4, 2013 at 21:17

Windows 10 includes curl.exe :

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/containers/-/ba-p/382409

so you can do something like this:

If you have older Windows, you can still download it:

https://curl.haxx.se/windows

https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/invoke-webrequest

• This doesn't work with redirects on sourceforge (and possibly other sites), as opposed to System.Net.WebClient . However you can make Invoke-WebRequest work by adding -UserAgent [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.PSUserAgent]::FireFox . –  Ela782 Jan 7, 2016 at 12:22
• The powershell part is the only one working in Server 2016 core mode. Note that you need to specify the securityprotocol like stackoverflow.com/a/48030563/350580 to make https acturally work –  Ding-Yi Chen Sep 28, 2020 at 6:34

It's possible to download a file with certutil :

Certutil is not installed by default on XP/Win2003 but is avaialble on the newer windows versions.For XP/2003 you'll need the Admin Tool Pack for windows server 2003

Old answer:

Windows has its own command line download utility - BITSAdmin :

BITSAdmin is a command-line tool that you can use to create download or upload jobs and monitor their progress.

Here's my overview of how a file can be downloaded on windows without external tools

And a complete bitsadmin example:

• 8 Interesting. That is one clumsy piece of software compared to wget. –  hookenz Mar 28, 2012 at 21:36
• 2 Note that It doesn't ship with Windows XP, and maybe not with other versions either. –  Ian Dunn May 22, 2012 at 23:06
• 12 Update: BITSAdmin is deprecated and is not guaranteed to be available in future versions of Windows. Administrative tools for the BITS service are now provided by BITS PowerShell cmdlets. –  nulldev07 Sep 28, 2012 at 5:49
• 2 @MattH: because it's nto suppsoed to be wget in the first place? - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfer_Service –  peterchen Sep 27, 2013 at 12:17
• 4 Unable to add file - 0x80070057 –  Tomáš Zato Apr 26, 2016 at 17:55

Save the following text as wget.js and simply call

This is the code:

• 1 What language is this script in?Looks useful to my current task. I'd like to find more reference documentation. Doesn't look quite like vb –  G-. May 30, 2014 at 14:54
• 1 Useful for single files. Needs enhancing for recursive download and https. –  opticyclic Nov 26, 2014 at 19:07
• 4 @G-. I'm late to the party, but that's JavaScript. –  prooffreader Oct 21, 2015 at 20:52
• I tried to do that for database.clamav.net/daily.cvd , but it downloaded only 88kB of 44MB :( –  kokbira Oct 10, 2017 at 16:27

There is a native cURL for Windows available here . There are many flavors available- with and without SSL support.

You don't need the extra baggage of Cygwin and the likes, just one small EXE file.

It is also important to know that there are both wget and curl aliases built into all modern versions of Windows Powershell. They are equivalent.

No extra files or downloads are required to obtain wget functionality:

Using Curl In Powershell (The Sociable Geek)

You can type in a cURL command like one that downloads a file from a GitHub repository. curl http://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/mongodb-on-ubuntu/azuredeploy.json and it will seem like it works but what it is actually doing is just using cURL as an alias. In the above instance, what will happen is that you will just get the headers instead of the file itself. Aliases in PowerShell allow you to create shortcuts for longer commands so you don’t have to type them out all of the time. If you type in the command Get-Alias, it will give you a list of all the Aliases that are used in PowerShell. As you can see, the curl command just calls the Invoke-WebRequest command. They are similar but not the same which is why the above request does not work for us.

To get this to work properly in PowerShell the easiest way is to use variables and the -OutFile argument as shown here:

(file name cut off in image “ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/mongodb-on-ubuntu/azuredeploy.json ”)

This syntax will download the full contents of the target file azuredeploy.json to the local file newfile.json

The primary advantage is that it is built into Powershell itself so this code will execute directly with no downloads or any other extra file creations are required to make it work on any modern version of Windows.

• This be done directly on one line, but the line gets pretty long and is not as immediately readable at a glance. –  SDsolar Nov 15, 2017 at 18:48

I made a quick myGet.bat file which calls the PowerShell method described above.

I borrowed some code from Parsing URL for filename with space .

• 1 why the downvote? this looks okay to me and is a direct response to the question. Yes it's clunky and could use improvement, like escaping ampersands (&) in the url, but it works as is. –  matt wilkie Apr 24, 2013 at 5:02
• Wouldn't it be easier to just write a PowerShell script??? –  SamB Feb 26, 2019 at 23:12
• 4 powershell.exe -Command "Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile ./file-name https://location/file-name" <-- Simple one line powershell usage in script file hard coding location and file name. –  James Eby Jun 20, 2019 at 20:58

I was searching for the same, and since I had no privilege to install any of the above packages, I went for a small workaround (to download 30+files):

• I created a batch file
• Listed all the files
• Put firefox.exe at the beginning of each line
• Went to the firefox directory in Program Files

You could also use the wget packaged in PowerShell . ;^) To open, hit the Windows key and type "powershell" or Windows-R and type "powershell" and hit return.

No installation necessary.

One interesting difference from conventional wget (more at that link ): You can't simply use the greater-than to pipe to a file. wget in PowerShell is just a convenience wrapper for Invoke-WebRequest , and you need to use its syntax to write to a file.

• 1 -OutFile did the job! –  Dimitry K Nov 15, 2017 at 15:59

If PowerShell is an option, that's the preferred route, since you (potentially) won't have to install anything extra:

Failing that, Wget for Windows, as others have pointed out is definitely the second best option. As posted in another answer it looks like you can download Wget all by itself , or you can grab it as a part of Cygwin or MSys .

If for some reason, you find yourself stuck in a time warp, using a machine that doesn't have PowerShell and you have zero access to a working web browser (that is, Internet Explorer is the only browser on the system, and its settings are corrupt), and your file is on an FTP site (as opposed to HTTP):

If memory serves it's been there since Windows 98, and I can confirm that it is still there in Windows 8 RTM (you might have to go into appwiz.cpl and add/remove features to get it). This utility can both download and upload files to/from FTP sites on the web. It can also be used in scripts to automate either operation.

This tool being built-in has been a real life saver for me in the past, especially in the days of ftp.cdrom.com -- I downloaded Firefox that way once, on a completely broken machine that had only a dial-up Internet connection (back when sneakernet's maximum packet size was still 1.44 MB, and Firefox was still called "Netscape" /me does trollface ).

A couple of tips: it's its own command processor, and it has its own syntax. Try typing "help". All FTP sites require a username and password; but if they allow "anonymous" users, the username is "anonymous" and the password is your email address (you can make one up if you don't want to be tracked, but usually there is some kind of logic to make sure it's a valid email address).

• +1 for thinking of command line ftp! However wget and powershell were both mentioned well before you joined the party, so -1 there. :-/ –  matt wilkie Apr 24, 2013 at 5:08
• The other powershell answers I saw were all multi-liners and/or had some code smell to them -- this is a short & simple one liner to download a file. -- Also I wanted to provide an answer that covered all the bases. :-) –  BrainSlugs83 Jan 12, 2016 at 0:20

Search for /download function on https://lolbas-project.github.io .

Right now there are Bitsadmin.exe , Certutil.exe , Esentutl.exe , Expand.exe, Extrac32.exe , Findstr.exe , Hh.exe , Ieexec.exe , Makecab.exe , Replace.exe for Windows vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and the equivalent Server versions.

Cygwin has Wget (and many more utilities).

On Win CMD (if you have write access):

Built in Windows app. No need for external downloads.

Tested on Win 10

• Can you tell me where this file is being saved to? –  hod Jul 12, 2020 at 23:29
• The download will be saved to the file pointed to by variable %file% –  Zimba Jul 15, 2020 at 17:13

In Windows one can also use a Linux Terminal Emulator, like MobaXterm , or WSL2 .

The procedure is similar for both, what varies is the installation process.

For MobaXterm, this is the proceedure:

Download and Install MobaXterm (the Home Edition may be enough for your use case).

Access MobApt (MobaXterm package manager) by opening the terminal and run MobApt .

• Find the package wget and press Install/Update (assuming that it is still not installed).

• Then, run your script (I will leave at the bottom an example of a wget script that you may run).

For WSL2, this is the procedure:

Install WSL2 ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 ). I'm using Ubuntu 18.

Once the setup is done, open and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install wget

• Then run your script (I will leave at the bottom an example of a wget script that you may run).

You may use this script in both cases:

And http://www.httrack.com/ has a nice GUI (and it's free), for mirroring sites. It also has a Linux version.

I think installing wget via Chocolatey is the easiest way.

• Install Chocolatey
• From the command-line, type: choco install wget
• You can then use wget from the command line like on *nix systems.

You can get WGet for Windows here . Alternatively you can right click on the download link of the item you want to download and choose Save As. This will download the file and not open it in the assigned application.

If you want a GUI, then try VisualWget , which is actually clean, and feature full. It is based on GNU Wget for its download engine.

EDIT: updated link.

• 1 here is an updated link: sites.google.com/site/visualwget/… (the downloads are at the bottom of the page, use the little arrows on the right) –  Reed Hedges May 13, 2012 at 12:43

As documented in this SU answer , you can use the following in Powershell:

An alternative to using gnuwin32 is unxutils which includes wget.

• you can manage with unxutils but it's old, it uses an old version of wget. gnuwin32 is the thing to use. not quite as convenient to install and not as easy to find things, but it has much more than unxutils too. –  barlop Oct 5, 2011 at 19:31

If you need a visual Post for Windows, here is one. You can post data or files with it.

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System Management Interface SMI

The NVIDIA System Management Interface (nvidia-smi) is a command line utility, based on top of the NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) , intended to aid in the management and monitoring of NVIDIA GPU devices. 

This utility allows administrators to query GPU device state and with the appropriate privileges, permits administrators to modify GPU device state.  It is targeted at the Tesla TM , GRID TM , Quadro TM and Titan X product, though limited support is also available on other NVIDIA GPUs.

NVIDIA-smi ships with NVIDIA GPU display drivers on Linux, and with 64bit Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Nvidia-smi can report query information as XML or human readable plain text to either standard output or a file. For more details, please refer to the nvidia-smi documentation .

Example nvidia-smi output