Use curl to download a webpage (e.g., Google's homepage) and save it as index.html. (Use cat index.html to verify)

Use curl to Download a Webpage and Save it as index.html

bashCopyEditcurl -o index.html https://www.google.com
  • curl → Command-line tool to fetch data from a URL.

  • -o index.html → Saves the downloaded content as index.html.


Step 2: Verify the Downloaded File

bashCopyEditcat index.html
  • This prints the contents of index.html, which should contain the HTML source of Google’s homepage.
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