Wget File Download with Correct File Name

author@junian.dev (Junian Triajianto) — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 08:48:21 +0700

I’m using wget a lot when I need to download a file from the internet to my headless server. But sometimes, the URL I got isn’t ended with a clean file name. Sometimes the URL redirect to another one, sometimes it has parameters. As you know, wget doesn’t handle the file name correctly when you have a non-clean URL.

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For example, I want to download a vim script called The NERD tree from its official website. From the web page, we can see that the latest version by the time this article written is v5.0.0. As you can see, the file name is NERD_tree.zip with following URL.

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Wget File Download with Correct File Name