Acquisition Commands
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>> Hello, Cybrarians,
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>> and welcome back to
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>> the Linux+ course here at Cybrary,
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I'm your instructor Rob Goelz.
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>> In today's lesson,
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>> we're going to discuss acquisition commands.
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Upon completion of the lesson today,
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you're going to be able to understand what
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acquisition commands are and what they're used
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for and we'll also see how to
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use the wget and curl commands.
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Acquisition commands are just a fancy way of saying using
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Linux to download a file or package from remote stores,
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doing this from the command line.
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For the Linux plus exam,
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there are two acquisition commands that you have to
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know, wget and curl.
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Now the wget command can be used to
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download packages and files from remote servers,
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and it can be done via FTP,
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FTPS, HTTP, or HTTPS.
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Primarily wget is used as a simple way
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to just download a package file and you do that
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with the syntax wget and
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then the URL of the file or package or download.
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Generally you'll just go wget to
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an HTTP or HTTPS source where
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that package file lives
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and download that to the directory that you're in.
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The curl command works pretty much the same as wget,
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it just has more features and supports
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more protocols beyond FTP and HTTP.
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To use curl to download a package like we do with wget,
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we use curl -O,
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and then the URL of the file
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or package that you want to download.
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If you wanted to specify a file name for the download,
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if you want to name it something other than the name
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of the package on the remote source,
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you can do curl -o,
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and then the name of the file that you want to give it,
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and then the URL of the file or package to download.
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But with that, we've reached the end of
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the lesson and in today's lesson we covered
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acquisition commands and the two
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we need to know are wget and curl.
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Thank you so much for being here and I look
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forward to seeing you in our next lesson.
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