Download a File in a Batch File

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Published on 2010-03-08T10:13:13Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 2:38 UTC
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I've never done any scripting on Windows but now I need to write a batch file that downloads a file off the internet (amongst other things). If it was linux I would use wget.

Is there a builtin executable that will download a file to a given directory? This needs to run on XP.

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