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Windows Bitsadmin Alternative

because Bitsadmin is getting deprecated I would like to hear if you know about an alternative to Download files from within a batch script. Best would be an alternative that already comes with windows so I don't need to download extra stuff.

Solution

  • Bacon Bits and I had the same idea at the same time. Here's an example using PowerShell's BitsTransfer module. Save this as a .bat file and run it.

    @echo off
setlocal

set "URL=http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/sprites.svg"
set "SaveAs=sprites.svg"
powershell "Import-Module BitsTransfer; Start-BitsTransfer '%URL%' '%SaveAs%'"