| Tip 173 | Download Files Fuss-Free |
Although OS X doesn’t include a download manager—a program whose job it is to take care of downloads, including resuming those that stall or fail—it does include a similar style of tool at the command line. curl can download (and even upload) just about any type of file or even entire websites (a process known as crawling).
To use curl to download a large file, open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder); then switch to the folder into which you’d like to download the file. This can be done easily by locating the folder in Finder and then dragging and dropping it onto the Terminal window while holding ...
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