Where do downloaded files go linux

 · This answer is useful. This answer is not useful. Show activity on this post. Quite late to the party but: There is XDG specification that covers exactly this topic. To get the download directory in shell (script) just run: $ xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD /home/djasa/Downloads. For programs, the location is available in $HOME/.config/bltadwin.ru: $ grep bltadwin.ru .  · Where do I store things on the file system? Specifically downloaded applications/programs. I know I can put files anywhere I want but I want to adhere to commonly used practices. Let me give an example. I download skype and apache web server. Skype shouldn't be available to every user on the system.. just me.  · First, the easy one. From within the Windows Subsystem for Linux environment you want to browse, run the following command: bltadwin.ru This will launch File Explorer showing the current Linux directory—you can browse the Linux environment’s file system from there. You can also access them directly at a \\wsl$ path.

The file should go to your Download directory. Try ls -a ~/Downloads and see if your file is there. If its not there for some reason you can use the find command to locate it. I download and install packages on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 machine using YUM package manager in command-line mode. When I install apk files on my Android phone, they go to /data/app directory, I am wondering where RHEL6 keeps its installed rpm files? How can I download files with cURL on a Linux or Unix-like systems? Introduction: cURL is both a command line utility and library. One can use it to download or transfer of data/files using many different protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP and more. The curl command line utility lets you fetch a given URL or file from the bash shell.

Libraries are shared bits of code. On Windows these are called DLL files (Dynamic Loading Libraries). On Linux systems they are usually called SO (Shared Object) files. As to location, are you detecting a pattern yet? There are three directories where library files are placed: /lib, /usr/lib, and /usr/local/lib. There is no "default download directory" at the level of the OS, though all current distros will create a ~/Downloads directory for this purpose and most browsers will choose it by default. What are you trying to accomplish?. as TroN pointed out about, your Download directory is located in the root of your /home/user/ directory, not in your Desktop path. from your desktop you could use the.. I showed above as follows.