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How to download a zip file using the command line

I would like to download a heavy compressed zip file from either dropbox or the UCF-Crime video dataset. The dataset's website points out these two links to get the dataset from : https://www.dropbox....
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How to force wget to download a directory from Dropbox

I tried downloading a dropbox directory using the following command. wget -O reads -r "https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1eqzxexmei28ihx/AAAnjVNqUl8MJFH51j9PILf-a?dl=1 It downloads, but the result is a ...
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How download dropbox directory or files with command line on a linux server [duplicate]

I need to move a very big directory from dropbox to S3 ~250GB, but don't find an easy way to do it. (I don't have credential of dropbox it is a shared link) 1) From my browser trying to download the ...
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How to download a dropbox folder using wget?

Someone shared a photo folder with me on dropbox. I would like to download the dropbox folder containing images on a Linux box, without installing any dropbox software. I am aware of this answer to ...
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wget not allowing access to file

When I use wget to download a batch file from dropbox, then try to run it I get an error that says I do not have permissions to use this file. So far this only applies to batch files, I can wget and ...
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Make wget cache DNS resolution results

I'm using wget in a script to download a changing file from Dropbox: wget -4 -O filename.ext "https://www.dropbox.com/s/<fixed-hash-id>/filename.ext?dl=1" I notice that wget resolves the IP ...
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wget stops downloading: Cannot write to `-' (success)

Please have in mind that I don't know anything about servers, nor any of its vocabulary, I am a simple web coder, trying to figure my way on the universe. I'm trying to link dropbox on my server, I ...
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hourly download with wget

i would like to download a file from dropbox every hour and log it for testing. whats the best way to this? im new to wget and so far iv manage to download the file. here is what i have so far: ...
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how to download dropbox files using wget command?

Seems I can only download dropbox files using explorer such as chrome and firefox. If I use wget to download, then I would get a file which is in html format. Why? For example you can open this link ...
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