Example uses of the command "curl"

The following command retrieves the web page www.google.com:

curl http://www.google.com/ 

You can save the retrieved page to a file as follows:

curl -o file1.html http://www.google.com/ 

This is an example of downloading a file from an ftp server:

curl ftp://ftp.server1.com/file1.txt 

For more examples see the curl usage page. See the man page for a complete listing of command options.