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Command Prompt Portable is a lightweight system enhancement utility that allows users of all knowledge levels to gain the ability to run a command-line environment that is activated directly from a removable storage drive. By not relying on the graphical interface of the Windows OS or even the “CMD” tool that is embedded into it, users of this app can be sure that they can do their work on every PC that can access their portable USB stick.

For most people, Command Prompt Portable will represent a reliable application that is used either for a simple task that can be activated with traditional DOS text commands, or even larger batch operations that are managed by BAT archives. Such a versatile approach enables users to skip managing several (or dozen) file transfer windows or activating numerous other Windows apps needed to administrate current Windows session or troubleshoot various Windows issues.

Even though the entirety of this application is focused only on delivering a standard text-based interface from the days of good old DOS, users can still manage to find few customization tools that will transform some aspects of the app – namely the color of the cursor, title of the main app window, change the columns and cursor. All settings changes are managed by the contents of the BAT file that utilizes standard DOS commands.

For advanced users, It also supports the ability for speeding up writing folder names (when pressing TAB during mid-typing) by simply adding a CommandPromptPortable.ini file to the application’s folder.

Command Prompt Portable is 100% FREE and can be used on all versions of Windows (including Windows 98). The app is optimized for the running of the portable USB storage drivers, does not feature an installation app, and it makes no changes to the Windows Registry database.

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How to download files from Command Prompt in Windows [Tip]

Tip / Trick

Every modern web browser has a built-in option that allows users to download a remote file from a specific source. This is a good thing because you no longer need to install another software or program just to download some text files, PDF documents, MP3s, FLV and MP4 videos, etc. However, there are also limitations to what you can do so you might want to consider learning how to download files from the command prompt in Windows.

So if you still don’t know how, go ahead and feel free to read on…

How to download files from Command Prompt in Windows

Download and installation

• On your preferred web browser (ex. Chrome, Firefox, etc.), click this link to download the complete Wget package (the filename is wget-1.11.4-1-setup.exe) of Wget for Windows. Save the file to your desktop or folder.
• Once downloaded, double-click the file to begin the installation/Wget setup process. Just follow the on-screen instructions and make sure that you choose “Full installation” which includes the Binaries as well as the documentation.

• When you reach the part where you will be asked to select the additional tasks, do not forget to check the option for “Download Sources” then click “Next”.

• Click “Install” then click “Finish” to proceed with the full installation.
• After which, you will be prompted to save another file called “wget-1.11.4-1-src.zip”. Just click “Save” to confirm. Simply proceed to the next step as soon as you’re done.

Usage

Wget for Windows offers basic and advanced usage. However, in this post, we’re not going to delve into its advanced commands and functionalities. Since the objective of this post is just to let you know how to download files from the command prompt, you simply need to remember this basic Wget for Windows command:

wget [URL]

• To use this command, open your Windows command prompt (click start > type cmd.exe on the search field then press “Enter”).
• On your command prompt, type the command wget [URL] – do not forget to replace the [URL] with the actual link or URL of the file that you wish to download. For example, you can type wget http://dottech.org/filexyz.zip then press “Enter”.

• If the wget command is working, you will be able to download any file from the World Wide Web with ease.

If you want to learn more basic wget commands, you can refer to this link.

Just remember that Wget for Windows won’t function unless you meet the following system requirements.

Prompt file download

I have a link on my page on click of which I am trying to generate a PDF document and then show the «Open — Save» prompt on the browser.

My HTML (reactjs component) has the below code where onclick calls the _getMyDocument function which then calls a Webapi method.

My Controller has the below code

Currently all the code executes but I don’t get the file PDF download prompt. What am I doing wrong here?

Response object on success from the ajax call lokks like below

5 Answers 5

Your response from the server looks good. The missing part is that you are not handling this response from the client side in the correct way.

Lets assume that your resource url object looks like below in js. (i.e. you already know the resource url, if you don’t know it yet, then you will need a separate call to the server to know the download url)

All you need to do is set,

This will cause the browser to request a resource from the server, the response from the server must include Content-Disposition:attachment; . It will cause the browser to show the download dialog.

P.S. I have recently worked on a similar functionality. If you have questions please ask.

When you want to force the browser to show the download prompt for some files (or resources), you must include Content-Disposition:attachment; in the response header (which you already did).

Is it possible to download using the Windows command line?

Without using any non-standard (Windows included) utilities, is it possible to download using the Windows command line?

The preferred version is Windows XP, but it’s also interesting to know for newer versions.

To further clarify my question:

• It has to be using HTTP
• The file needs to be saved
• Standard clean Windows install, no extra tools

So basically, since everybody is screaming Wget, I want simple Wget functionality, without using Wget.

17 Answers 17

You can write a VBScript and run it from the command line

Create a file downloadfile.vbs and insert the following lines of code:

Run it from the command line as follows:

Starting with Windows 7, I believe there’s one single method that hasn’t been mentioned yet that’s easy:

(Broken into two separate lines with ^ for readability (to avoid scrolling).)

Warning: As pointed out in the comments, the bitsadmin help message starts by saying:

. but another comment reported that it works on Windows 8.

Windows 7 includes PowerShell and there’s pretty much nothing you can’t do with PowerShell.

PowerShell (included with Windows 8 and included with .NET for earlier releases) has this capability. The powershell command allows running arbitrary PowerShell commands from the command line or a .bat file. Thus, the following line is what’s wanted:

I found a way of doing it, but really, just install Wget.

You can use Internet Explorer from a command line (iexplore.exe) and then enter a URL as an argument. So, run:

Whatever the file is, you’ll need to specify it doesn’t need confirmation ahead of time. Lo and behold, it will automatically perform the download. So yes, it is technically possible, but good lord do it in a different way.

Windows Explorer (not to be confused with Internet Explorer) can download files via HTTP. Just enter the URL into the Address bar. Or from the command line, for example, C:\windows\explorer.exe http://somewhere.com/filename.ext .

You get the classic File Download prompt. Unless the file is a type that Windows Explorer knows how to display inline, (.html, .jpg, .gif), in which case you would then need to right-click to save it.

I just tested this on my VMware image of a virgin install of Windows XP 2002 SP1, and it works fine.

You can use (in a standard Windows bat):

It seems to require PowerShell v4.

From the command line:

etc. FTP is included in every Windows version I can remember; probably not in 3.1, maybe not in Windows 95, but certainly everything after that.

@RM: It is going to be rough if you don’t want to download any other tools. There exists a command line Wget for Windows and Wget is designed to do exactly what you’re asking for.