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wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1
# --no-check-cerftificate was necessary for me to have wget not puke about https
curl -LJO https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1
@OctavioBR
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OctavioBR commented Aug 4, 2020

Don't know why --remote-header-name is required. It works fine only with --location & --remote-name

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g0d0 commented Aug 5, 2020 •
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None of these examples work for me. 404 is returned.

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trylaarsdam commented Aug 22, 2020

thanks for this!

None of these examples work for me. 404 is returned.

This likely means your URL is invalid (the file isn't on the server)

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dienluong commented Aug 27, 2020

-J, --remote-header-name

(HTTP) This option tells the -O, --remote-name option to use the server-specified Content-Disposition filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL.

If the server specifies a file name and a file with that name already exists in the current working directory it will not be overwritten and an error will occur. If the server doesn't specify a file name then this option has no effect.

There's no attempt to decode %-sequences (yet) in the provided file name, so this option may provide you with rather unexpected file names.

WARNING: Exercise judicious use of this option, especially on Windows. A rogue server could send you the name of a DLL or other file that could possibly be loaded automatically by Windows or some third party software.

Source: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#-J

Generally, one shouldn't blindly use command options without knowing what they do.

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azmanhamid commented Oct 8, 2020

TQ

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MetaKomora commented Dec 22, 2020

Thank you so much

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DivineAlien commented Jan 21, 2021

nice nice

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arcticOak2 commented Jan 29, 2021

Thank you so much <3

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solankiravi commented Feb 9, 2021

None of these examples work for me. 404 is returned.

I think you are trying to clone the private repo. To download private repo you should use a token.

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wook-coder commented Feb 10, 2021

TQ

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FASLADODO commented Feb 14, 2021

Thanks

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prasadkudav commented Mar 22, 2021 •
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When I download with this way from github. I get xml file with some metadata, It does not download the actual file.
How to download the actual file ?

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apolopena commented Mar 30, 2021

When I download with this way from github. I get xml file with some metadata, It does not download the actual file.
How to download the actual file ?

@prasadkudav,
You need to download the raw file which is kept at the domain raw.githubusercontent.com.
So a URL like this:
https://github.com/apolopena/gitpod-laravel8-starter/blob/main/README.md
Would need to be curled from here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apolopena/gitpod-laravel8-starter/main/README.md

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81322068 commented May 18, 2021

thank you!

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richardkeep commented May 21, 2021

@jwebcat what about a private repo? How do you pass the token?

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okparaa commented May 29, 2021

thank you so much

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mleonardblair commented Jul 17, 2021

it doesn't work with me, i tried: wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1
Said Unable to establish SSL connection.

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khorramk commented Sep 25, 2021

Thanks

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taylortaurus commented Oct 15, 2021

thx!

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SalimF commented Oct 31, 2021

Works solves my server upgrade

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pablodz commented Nov 9, 2021

What about http connections

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Yuchengw commented Dec 11, 2021

Thanks, it worked as a magic!

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alielmajdaoui commented Feb 10, 2022

In a Dockerfile, you can use ADD to download from any source. it's helpful when your image doesn't have curl or wget, or if you can't use https.

Example:

ADD https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay/releases/download/v3.1.0.0/s6-overlay-noarch-3.1.0.0.tar.xz /tmp
RUN tar -C / -Jxpf /tmp/s6-overlay-noarch-3.1.0.0.tar.xz

Source: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay#using-cmd

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cchwala commented May 4, 2022

๐Ÿ‘

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showgood163 commented Jun 25, 2022

Thanks!

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vancuongdbj commented Sep 14, 2022

Verify Github on Galxe. gid:S8JDzMFPiU7U23PJjf3RMJ

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NHLOCAL commented Oct 17, 2022

ื”ื’ืขืชื™ ืœื–ื” ื“ื•ืงื ื“ืจืš ื’ื•ื’ืœ ื•ืขื•ื‘ื“ ืžืฆื•ื™ืŸ!

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basejumpa commented Mar 26, 2023

I was stuck and your curl line just helped me. Thx!

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cig0 commented Nov 21, 2023

Thx!

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00unkn0wn00 commented Dec 31, 2023

Could You Show how to do it on a self hosted git server?

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