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Downloading single file using curl

Let's get some hands on practice for the more commonly used options and flags with curl. The URL for the hosted file is a shortened URL using tinyurl. Because of that, we need to fill out a flag option that allows for redirected URLs.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Processing in Shell

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Use curl to download the file from the redirected URL
curl ___ https://assets.datacamp.com/production/repositories/4180/datasets/eb1d6a36fa3039e4e00064797e1a1600d267b135/201812SpotifyData.zip
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