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Easily download web files in the Terminal
Authored by: RalfM on Jun 02, '03 02:26:19AM

You can of course also just drag and drop the URL into the terminal window, rather than copy and pasting. In Mozilla, the little ribbon looking thing; in Safari the globe; etc ... Or, from within a page, just drag the hyperlink across.

Drag and drop also works with icons, i.e. dropping an icon onto terminal cuts and pastes in the path to that object. Useful when you want to use vi or other terminal based editors to quickly get into a text file, e.g. a resource file.

Drag and drop also has the advantage here that you don't need to copy the link into the buffer, and it works for every app not just the one you alias.

Ralf




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