Downloading Files with gURL

gURL makes downloading files from the internet easy and flexible. Below are some common use cases for the gurl download command.

Basic File Download

To download a file from a URL, use:

gurl download https://example.com/file.zip

You can specify the name of the output file using -o:

gurl download -o myfile.zip https://example.com/file.zip

To save the downloaded file to a specific folder, use the -P flag:

gurl download -P ./downloads/ https://example.com/file.zip

If a download was interrupted, you can resume it using the -c flag:

gurl download -c https://example.com/large-file.iso

Suppress all output and progress bars for silent downloads:

gurl download -q https://example.com/file.zip

To automatically retry a failed download, use --tries with an optional --retry-delay:

gurl download --tries 5 --retry-delay 5s https://example.com/file.zip

To set a timeout for the download operation, use -t:

gurl download -t 60s https://example.com/large-file.iso