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I need to know if there is a utility built-in to Windows Server 2003 that I can use from the command line to download a file using only one command.
Basically I know that I can download from ftp using the ftp utility but in order to do that I need to do first ftp open and then pass the other commands so it doesn't help me because I need to do perform the download only from one command. The download may be performed through http, ftp or any other protocol.

OS Name: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition
OS Version: 5.2.3790 Service Pack 2 Build 379
jscott
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Michael
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Nothing built-in I'm aware of. If you have PowerShell installed you can use System.Net.WebClient for that, even though you may still want a wrapper for ease of use:

$wc = New-Object Net.WebClient
$wc.DownloadFile('http://...', file)

But if you first need to install something, then there are many other options out there, too.

Joey
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tftp is perfect for this stuff! it requires a tftp server, but means you can do one line file download commands.

It's been removed from the most recent MS server and client OS's because it makes downloading & installing virus payloads so easy!

tftp -i x.x.x.x get file.txt
Nick Kavadias
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I prefer to use ncftp for this kind of thing: http://www.ncftp.com/

Coding Gorilla
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wget and curl (open source utilities) should each be able to meet your needs.

wget: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

curl: http://curl.haxx.se/

(Despite the "haxx" domain name, it is a very safe and common open-source tool.)

-Waldo

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