#33 : Complete script to download file with Powershell

Powershell can be used to download some files from internet or intranet. We can simply do it with Invoke-WebRequest.

Below is the code which can be used for this purpose :

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#-- Script to Download file 
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function Download-File ([string]$url , [string]$target)
{
 trap {
  echo "Error occured" 
  continue 
 }
 
 if ( !(Test-path $target ))
 {
  invoke-webrequest $url -OutFile $target
 }
 else 
 {
  echo "Error : Directory does not exit!"
 }

}

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Download-File "http://site.foo.com/file.exe" "C:\temp"

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Enjoy!