Download file using Curl

To download a file from URL, just use the command below

curl -O https://file-examples.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/file_example_JPG_100kB.jpg

Example above showing how to download file from URL and using the same file name from the download source. If you want to specify your own file name, you can use -o option.

curl https://file-examples.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/file_example_JPG_100kB.jpg -o test.jpg

To download file with redirect

curl -LO https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk11-upstream-binaries/releases/download/jdk-11.0.7%2B10/OpenJDK11U-jre_x64_linux_11.0.7_10.tar.gz

Ubuntu download deb packages without installing

To download without installaing, just use the following command

apt-get -d install package

Once done, you can go /var/cache/apt/archives to retrieve the packages you had downloaded.