Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
Both wget and curl can download files via url and handle redirects while showing progress. wget follows redirect and show progress bar by default wget https://example.com/file.zip curl needs flag -L to follow redirects and -O to save with the original filename. It doesn't show progress bar but shows data transfer stats. curl -L -O https://example.com/file.zip wget is the easier choice for simple file downloads. Tested on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Full answer by Janardan Bhetwal: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1570011 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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