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10-26-2012, 07:51 PM
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Registered: Mar 2012
Posts: 40
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text mode webrowser with with download option for files such as .tar.gz or exe
is there a text mode webrowser that is also capable of downloading files such as .exe or tar.gz or any other such file types.
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10-26-2012, 09:02 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,545
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Lynx, links, elinks. Any one of them is capable of downloading files.
The elinks and links interfaces are a little more like a graphical browser than the lynx interface.
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10-26-2012, 09:12 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2012
Location: North America
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 5
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lynx
Code:
$ man lynx
NAME
lynx - a general purpose distributed information browser for the World Wide Web
SYNOPSIS
lynx [options] [path or URL]
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10-26-2012, 09:20 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2005
Location: boston, usa
Distribution: fedora-35
Posts: 5,326
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if you know the url without browsing consider using wget.
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