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FETCH(1)		FreeBSD	General	Commands Manual		      FETCH(1)

NAME
     fetch -- retrieve a file by Uniform Resource Locator

SYNOPSIS
     fetch [-146AadFlMmnPpqRrsUv] [-B bytes] [--bind-address=host]
	   [--ca-cert=file] [--ca-path=dir] [--cert=file] [--crl=file]
	   [-i file] [--key=file] [-N file] [--no-passive] [--no-proxy=list]
	   [--no-sslv3]	[--no-tlsv1] [--no-verify-hostname] [--no-verify-peer]
	   [-o file] [--referer=URL] [-S bytes]	[-T seconds]
	   [--user-agent=agent-string] [-w seconds] URL	...
     fetch [-146AadFlMmnPpqRrsUv] [-B bytes] [--bind-address=host]
	   [--ca-cert=file] [--ca-path=dir] [--cert=file] [--crl=file]
	   [-i file] [--key=file] [-N file] [--no-passive] [--no-proxy=list]
	   [--no-sslv3]	[--no-tlsv1] [--no-verify-hostname] [--no-verify-peer]
	   [-o file] [--referer=URL] [-S bytes]	[-T seconds]
	   [--user-agent=agent-string] [-w seconds] -h host -f file [-c	dir]

DESCRIPTION
     The fetch utility provides	a command-line interface to the	fetch(3) li-
     brary.  Its purpose is to retrieve	the file(s) pointed to by the URL(s)
     on	the command line.

     The following options are available:

     -1, --one-file
		 Stop and return exit code 0 at	the first successfully re-
		 trieved file.

     -4, --ipv4-only
		 Forces	fetch to use IPv4 addresses only.

     -6, --ipv6-only
		 Forces	fetch to use IPv6 addresses only.

     -A, --no-redirect
		 Do not	automatically follow ``temporary'' (302) redirects.
		 Some broken Web sites will return a redirect instead of a
		 not-found error when the requested object does	not exist.

     -a, --retry
		 Automatically retry the transfer upon soft failures.

     -B	bytes, --buffer-size=bytes
		 Specify the read buffer size in bytes.	 The default is	16,384
		 bytes.	 Attempts to set a buffer size lower than this will be
		 silently ignored.  The	number of reads	actually performed is
		 reported at verbosity level two or higher (see	the -v flag).

     --bind-address=host
		 Specifies a hostname or IP address to which sockets used for
		 outgoing connections will be bound.

     -c	dir	 The file to retrieve is in directory dir on the remote	host.
		 This option is	deprecated and is provided for backward	com-
		 patibility only.

     --ca-cert=file
		 [SSL] Path to certificate bundle containing trusted CA	cer-
		 tificates.  If	not specified, /usr/local/etc/ssl/cert.pem is
		 used.	If this	file does not exist, /etc/ssl/cert.pem is used
		 instead.  If neither file exists and no CA path has been con-
		 figured, OpenSSL's default CA cert and	path settings apply.
		 The certificate bundle	can contain multiple CA	certificates.
		 The security/ca_root_nss port is a common source of a current
		 CA bundle.

     --ca-path=dir
		 [SSL] The directory dir contains trusted CA hashes.

     --cert=file
		 [SSL] file is a PEM encoded client certificate/key which will
		 be used in client certificate authentication.

     --crl=file	 [SSL] Points to certificate revocation	list file, which has
		 to be in PEM format and may contain peer certificates that
		 have been revoked.

     -d, --direct
		 Use a direct connection even if a proxy is configured.

     -F, --force-restart
		 In combination	with the -r flag, forces a restart even	if the
		 local and remote files	have different modification times.
		 Implies -R.

     -f	file	 The file to retrieve is named file on the remote host.	 This
		 option	is deprecated and is provided for backward compatibil-
		 ity only.

     -h	host	 The file to retrieve is located on the	host host.  This op-
		 tion is deprecated and	is provided for	backward compatibility
		 only.

     -i	file, --if-modified-since=file
		 If-Modified-Since mode: the remote file will only be re-
		 trieved if it is newer	than file on the local host.  (HTTP
		 only)

     --key=file	 [SSL] file is a PEM encoded client key	that will be used in
		 client	certificate authentication in case key and client cer-
		 tificate are stored separately.

     -l, --symlink
		 If the	target is a file-scheme	URL, make a symbolic link to
		 the target rather than	trying to copy it.

     -M

     -m, --mirror
		 Mirror	mode: if the file already exists locally and has the
		 same size and modification time as the	remote file, it	will
		 not be	fetched.  Note that the	-m and -r flags	are mutually
		 exclusive.

     -N	file, --netrc=file
		 Use file instead of ~/.netrc to look up login names and pass-
		 words for FTP sites.  See ftp(1) for a	description of the
		 file format.  This feature is experimental.

     -n, --no-mtime
		 Do not	preserve the modification time of the transferred
		 file.

     --no-passive
		 Forces	the FTP	code to	use active mode.

     --no-proxy=list
		 Either	a single asterisk, which disables the use of proxies
		 altogether, or	a comma- or whitespace-separated list of hosts
		 for which proxies should not be used.

     --no-sslv3	 [SSL] Do not allow SSL	version	3 when negotiating the connec-
		 tion.	This option is deprecated and is provided for backward
		 compatibility only.  SSLv3 is disabled	by default.  Set
		 SSL_ALLOW_SSL3	to change this behavior.

     --no-tlsv1	 [SSL] Do not allow TLS	version	1 when negotiating the connec-
		 tion.

     --no-verify-hostname
		 [SSL] Do not verify that the hostname matches the subject of
		 the certificate presented by the server.

     --no-verify-peer
		 [SSL] Do not verify the peer certificate against trusted CAs.

     -o	file, --output=file
		 Set the output	file name to file.  By default,	a ``pathname''
		 is extracted from the specified URI, and its basename is used
		 as the	name of	the output file.  A file argument of `-' indi-
		 cates that results are	to be directed to the standard output.
		 If the	file argument is a directory, fetched file(s) will be
		 placed	within the directory, with name(s) selected as in the
		 default behaviour.

     -P

     -p, --passive
		 Use passive FTP.  These flags have no effect, since passive
		 FTP is	the default, but are provided for compatibility	with
		 earlier versions where	active FTP was the default.  To	force
		 active	mode, use the --no-passive flag	or set the
		 FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable to `NO'.

     --referer=URL
		 Specifies the referrer	URL to use for HTTP requests.  If URL
		 is set	to "auto", the document	URL will be used as referrer
		 URL.

     -q, --quiet
		 Quiet mode.

     -R, --keep-output
		 The output files are precious,	and should not be deleted un-
		 der any circumstances,	even if	the transfer failed or was in-
		 complete.

     -r, --restart
		 Restart a previously interrupted transfer.  Note that the -m
		 and -r	flags are mutually exclusive.

     -S	bytes, --require-size=bytes
		 Require the file size reported	by the server to match the
		 specified value.  If it does not, a message is	printed	and
		 the file is not fetched.  If the server does not support re-
		 porting file sizes, this option is ignored and	the file is
		 fetched unconditionally.

     -s, --print-size
		 Print the size	in bytes of each requested file, without
		 fetching it.

     -T	seconds, --timeout=seconds
		 Set timeout value to seconds.	Overrides the environment
		 variables FTP_TIMEOUT for FTP transfers or HTTP_TIMEOUT for
		 HTTP transfers	if set.

     -U, --passive-portrange-default
		 When using passive FTP, allocate the port for the data	con-
		 nection from the low (default)	port range.  See ip(4) for de-
		 tails on how to specify which port range this corresponds to.

     --user-agent=agent-string
		 Specifies the User-Agent string to use	for HTTP requests.
		 This can be useful when working with HTTP origin or proxy
		 servers that differentiate between user agents.

     -v, --verbose
		 Increase verbosity level.

     -w	seconds, --retry-delay=seconds
		 When the -a flag is specified,	wait this many seconds between
		 successive retries.

     If	fetch receives a SIGINFO signal	(see the status	argument for stty(1)),
     the current transfer rate statistics will be written to the standard er-
     ror output, in the	same format as the standard completion message.

ENVIRONMENT
     FTP_TIMEOUT   Maximum time, in seconds, to	wait before aborting an	FTP
		   connection.

     HTTP_TIMEOUT  Maximum time, in seconds, to	wait before aborting an	HTTP
		   connection.

     See fetch(3) for a	description of additional environment variables, in-
     cluding FETCH_BIND_ADDRESS, FTP_LOGIN, FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, FTP_PASSWORD,
     FTP_PROXY,	ftp_proxy, HTTP_ACCEPT,	HTTP_AUTH, HTTP_PROXY, http_proxy,
     HTTP_PROXY_AUTH, HTTP_REFERER, HTTP_USER_AGENT, NETRC, NO_PROXY,
     no_proxy, SSL_CA_CERT_FILE, SSL_CA_CERT_PATH, SSL_CLIENT_CERT_FILE,
     SSL_CLIENT_KEY_FILE, SSL_CRL_FILE,	SSL_ALLOW_SSL3,	SSL_NO_TLS1,
     SSL_NO_TLS1_1, SSL_NO_TLS1_2, SSL_NO_VERIFY_HOSTNAME and
     SSL_NO_VERIFY_PEER.

EXIT STATUS
     The fetch command returns zero on success,	or one on failure.  If multi-
     ple URLs are listed on the	command	line, fetch will attempt to retrieve
     each one of them in turn, and will	return zero only if they were all suc-
     cessfully retrieved.

     If	the -i argument	is used	and the	remote file is not newer than the
     specified file then the command will still	return success,	although no
     file is transferred.

EXAMPLES
     Silently try to fetch the URLs passed as parameters.  The first one will
     fail.  If the second URL succeeds the third one will not be tried:

	   $ fetch -1 -q https://www.freebsd.org/bad.html \
		   ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT \
		   https://www.fake.url
	   fetch: https://www.freebsd.org/bad.html: Not	Found

     Be	verbose	when retrieving	the README.TXT file:

	   $ fetch -v ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT
	   resolving server address: ftp.freebsd.org:80
	   requesting http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT
	   local size /	mtime: 4259 / 1431015519
	   remote size / mtime:	4259 / 1431015519
	   README.TXT						 4259  B   44 MBps    00s

     Quietly save the README.TXT file as myreadme.txt and do not delete	the
     output file under any circumstances:

	   fetch -o myreadme.txt -q -R ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT

     Print the size of the requested file and identify the request with	a cus-
     tom user agent string:

	   $ fetch -s ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT
	   --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101"
	   3513231

     Restart the transfer of the README.TXT file and retry the transfer	upon
     soft failures:

	   $ fetch -a -r http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT

SEE ALSO
     fetch(3), phttpget(8)

HISTORY
     The fetch command appeared	in FreeBSD 2.1.5.  This	implementation first
     appeared in FreeBSD 4.1.

AUTHORS
     The original implementation of fetch was done by Jean-Marc	Zucconi
     <jmz@FreeBSD.org>.	 It was	extensively re-worked for FreeBSD 2.2 by
     Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>, and	later completely rewritten to
     use the fetch(3) library by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> and
     Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>.

NOTES
     The -b and	-t options are no longer supported and will generate warnings.
     They were workarounds for bugs in other OSes which	this implementation
     does not trigger.

     One cannot	both use the -h, -c and	-f options and specify URLs on the
     command line.

FreeBSD	13.0		       October 29, 2020			  FreeBSD 13.0

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | ENVIRONMENT | EXIT STATUS | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | HISTORY | AUTHORS | NOTES

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