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% Georg Voell - georg.voell@standby.cloud
% (c)2025 Standby.cloud

NAME
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**transfer** - (BASH Script) Get a resource from a host (or internet) via curl and check if an error occured.

SYNOPSIS
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| **transfer** \[_options_] _url_ 

DESCRIPTION
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Get a resource from a host (or internet) via curl and check if an error occured.

Options
-------

-h, \--help                     

:  Displays helptext.

-v, \--version                  

:  Displays the version of the script.

-q, \--quiet                    

:  Don't display any error messages.

-a, \--auth                     

:  Using Oracle Authorization Header e.g. -H "Authorization: Bearer Oracle".

-s, \--seconds _number_         

:  Max _number_ of seconds for the operation to take (default is 10).

-e, \--export _filename_        

:  Write output to file "_filename_".

URL
-------

 URL can be specified with or without leading "http://".


EXAMPLES
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**transfer** http://standby.cloud/download/pdf/Basic-Admin-Scripts.pdf \--export manual.pdf

: Downloads manual.pdf from server.

**transfer** \--auth http://169.254.169.254/opc/v2/instance

: Downloads oci instance metadata for current VM.


EXIT CODES
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01: Unknown or wrong parameter.

02: **curl** not found. This script needs **curl** to perform.

03: Application error.

04: HTML error.

05: JSON error or ObjectNotFound

06: No internet connection or URL not found.

07: Error while creating output file.

99: User interrupt.


SEE ALSO
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**install-scripts**(1)