When I give the URL (http://192.168.150.41:8080/filereport/31779/json/) in browser, it automatically downloads the file as 31779_report.json.
Now trying to download the file using curl, I get the following error:
$ curl -O http://192.168.150.41:8080/filereport/31779/json/
curl: Remote file name has no length!
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
When using the '-L' switch , I get the JSON content displayed but the file is not saved.
$curl -L http://192.168.150.41:8080/filereport/31779/json/
{
.....
.....
}
How to download the exact file "31779_report.json" using cURL / wget ?
I don't want the contents to be redirected (>) manually to a file (31779_report.json).
Any suggestions please ?
The -O flag of curl tries to use the remote name of the file, but because your URL schema does not end with a filename, it can not do this. The -o flag (lower-case o) can be used to specify a file name manually without redirecting STDOUT like so:
curl <address> -o filename.json
You can manually construct the filename format you want using awk. For example:
URL=http://192.168.150.41:8080/filereport/31779/json/
file_number=$(echo $URL | awk -F/ '{print $(NF-2)}')
file_name="${file_number}_report.json"
curl -L "$URL" -o "$file_name"
Hope this is more helpful.