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wget: Unsupported scheme on non-http URL

For example:

export URI=file:///myhost/system.log

How to download the system.log file from this URI in bash?

I have tried using wget and curl but they don’t support the FILE URI scheme.

Answer 1

Try doing this :

export URI="file:///etc/passwd"
curl -s "$URI" > /tmp/l
cat /tmp/l

If you need to download a remote file, you should use another protocol (and scheme), like :

curl ftp://user:password@host:port/path/to/file

or

scp host:/path/to/file file

etc…

NOTE

curl is able to download file scheme, despite what you said.