Running 'curl' with '-o' option failed with error "curl: (23) Failed writing body (0 != 720)"

[Csaba Raduly]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:28 AM Ma Hao <mahao_boy@sina.cn> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I was running into the problem when I tried to download spring:
> $ curl https://codeload.github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/zip/master -o /home/cdmahao/

You told curl to write the download to a file named /home/cdmahao/
Unfortunately, there is already a directory named /home/cdmahao/, and
curl can't write a file to a directory.
You need to give the name of a file to -o

$ curl https://codeload.github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/zip/master
-o /home/cdmahao/master.zip

curl works differently from wget. wget invents a filename based on the
URL. curl does not do that.

Csaba
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