wget

Up until now, whenever I wish to provide a customer with a zip file, I upload it to my server, I send the customer a URL to a download page, they download it, then upload it to their server. Not a big deal, but if the file is large, it does chew up a bit of time and transfer.

I was told recently something about a linux command called wget. The file can be transferred server to server? And then unzipped when it lands on the destination server?

Cool. wget

Can anyone please explain what the actual command would look like? Assuming that, for example, the URL of the file on my server is www.mysite/folder/zipfile.zip . And what would the command be for my customer to unzip it?

And are there any security issues that play in this equation?

Thanks for your help.

Vito

 

 

 

 

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