Curl, Wget, Winget & Powershell Install or Download Commands

After the mess I made in previous posts this summary might be useful.

    Thanks PatchMyPC, the great and powerful program downloader and updater.

Note: With both curl and wget, if a command keeps repeating without doing anything try

    curl.exe or wget.exe.(it has to do with alias or system path not worth tracing down)

curl

   -o your download path and/or file name. -O use the file name provide from the URL

curl

    Downloads into folder in which consol is active

curl -O https://patchmypc.com/freeupdater/PatchMyPC.exe

    Downloads into a specific folder

mkdir C:\Portable

curl -L https://patchmypc.com/freeupdater/PatchMyPC.exe -o C:\Portable\PatchMyPC.exe

In a multiple entry bat file I use the curl.exe command on each item

wget

    Download wget into the working directory (if link changes, fix it)

curl -o C:\Windows\System32\wget.exe https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/1.21.4/64/wget.exe

    Downloads into folder in which consol is active

wget https://patchmypc.com/freeupdater/PatchMyPC.exe

    Downloads into specific folder

mkdir C:\Portable

wget https://patchmypc.com/freeupdater/PatchMyPC.exe -O C:\Portable\PatchMyPC.exe

    Downloads into folder in which consol is active from a list of urls in a .txt file

    (list.txt in the folder in which consol is active)

wget -i list.txt

    Downloads into specific folder from a list of urls in a .txt file

wget -i "path to list\list.txt" -P C:\Portable

If a "certifacte" error occurs ad this --no-check-certificate. It's good to add if processing a list.

powershell

    Downloads into specific folder

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://patchmypc.com/freeupdater/PatchMyPC.exe -OutFile $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\PatchMyPC.exe 

winget

    Download winget installed programs list to specific folder

winget export -o %userprofile%\desktop\list.json

    Install from a downloaded .json file

winget import -i %userprofile%\desktop\list.json --accept-source-agreements --accept-package-agreements

    If  cmd or powershell is active in the same directory as the list.json

winget import -i list.json --accept-source-agreements --accept-package-agreements

Notepad++ does a great job of deleting the unwanted install lines in the exported json file.

It is also fast if you want to create a bat file from it.

    highlight a symbol ctl+f mark all & bookmark, search bookmark, remove bookmarked lines.

    highight the first " on the install line ctl+f all and replace with install commands

    alt+click and drag to highlight any column and delete.

    click and drag down/up to select rows for deletion

Notepad++ is the mother of all text editors :)

Downloading With Curl

Open CMD in directory into which you want to download the file.

    Shift + Right Click option "open Powershell window here"

    Powershell will run every CMD command plus many more so either works fine.

curl -O -L https://www.carifred.com/uvk/UVKPortable.exe

-O download the file named

-L follows redirects

It sometimes I need -O -L so I just usually use them.

This is how to redirect, within the command line, into the location in which you want the download.

curl -o C:\Portable\UVK.exe https://www.carifred.com/uvk/UVKPortable.exe

One way to structure for multiple file downloads.

    After the initial curl command, list them one after the other separated by a space.

        I think this is more difficult to edit.

curl -O -L https://patchmypc.com/freeupdater/PatchMyPC.exe https://www.carifred.com/uvk/UVKPortable.exe

    I prefer them in a vertical list with curl commands for each item.

Wget is great also. Maybe faster for some reason.

    It requires installing wget, wereas Curl is part of Win 10 and beyond.

        There is Wget2 but the added 2 in the command irritates me :)

            or find the wget.exe file somewhere and paste it into windows\system32

            Again, a continuous list separated by a single space.

https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/

    Just download the exe and place in C:\Windows\System32

    curl -o C:\Windows\System32\wget.exe https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/1.21.4/64/wget.exe

or

    download and send to the directory

    curl https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/1.21.4/64/wget.exe -o "C:\Windows\System32\wget.exe"

or

winget install JernejSimoncic.Wget

Open CMD in folder desired for downloads

wget --no-check-certificate  https://patchmypc.com/freeupdater/PatchMyPC.exe https://www.carifred.com/uvk/UVKPortable.exe https://www.sordum.org/files/download/defender-exclusion-tool/ExcTool.zip

or

create a text file containing a vertical list of all the urls and name the file "some_name.txt"

    then open cmd and cd to the folder containing the txt file

        wget -i some_name.txt

better yet

        wget --no-check-certificate -i some_name.txt

If wget does not work, just find the wget.exe file somewhere and copy it to the Windows\System32 folder.

fix certificate errors with wget --no-check-certificate http://example.com