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Windows Curl Command

January 11, 2023

If you have to download a file from the Internet on a Windows server, can certainly use the browser. But if the browser is rendering the file instead of downloading them, you may have to use the curl command which is already pre-installed on most Windows servers. Just open the command line. Here’s the the curl command to download a file.

curl.exe --output index.txt --url https://website.domain/index.txt

curl.exe --output index.txt --url https://website.domain/index.txt

Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: curl, download, server, windows

Python Web Server

May 20, 2022

Here’s a quick way to start a web server using Python (not recommended for production).

If you want to use python3, you may have to use explicitly use python3.

Check what versions you have first.

python --version
python3 --version

python --version python3 --version

Start web server using port 8080 in the current directory.

python -m http.server 8080

python -m http.server 8080

If you want an alternate directory, use this -d option.

python -m http.server 8080 -d /tmp

python -m http.server 8080 -d /tmp

It’s a great tool for quick downloads.

Filed Under: Linux Tagged With: download, python, server, web

GCP gcloud compute scp

January 31, 2022

Here’s how to download/upload files using gcloud compute scp.

Make sure you are authenticated.

gcloud auth login

gcloud auth login

How to download.

gcloud compute scp --recurse your-server:/home/username/yaml.tar.gz . \
--project your-project-id \
--zone us-central1-a \
--internal-ip

gcloud compute scp --recurse your-server:/home/username/yaml.tar.gz . \ --project your-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a \ --internal-ip

How to upload.

gcloud compute scp --recurse yaml.tar.gz your-server:/home/username/ \
--project your-project-id \
--zone us-central1-a \
--internal-ip

gcloud compute scp --recurse yaml.tar.gz your-server:/home/username/ \ --project your-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a \ --internal-ip

Filed Under: Cloud Tagged With: compute, download, files, gcloud, scp, upload

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