I am looking for a utility to run at a windows command prompt or in a
dos batch file that will collect / download either a file via html or
ftp to a given location.
I expect that the command would be run like 'somecommand
"http://www.exampleurl.com/downloadarea/example.exe" "c:\My
Downloads\example.exe"'

Im sure many exist, but I cant find them!

Hello...

wget and curl both come to mind...

I use curl more frequently than wget, but wget is what I use when I
want to download whole websites.

To use curl, just type:

curl -O www.yourwebsite.com/downloadfile.exe

This will save the desired file to the directory from which you ran
curl.  Remember to use a capital 'O' as it's case sensitive (I forget
what lowercase 'o' does).

To use wget, just type:

wget www.yourwebsite.com/downloadfile.exe



I'm assuming you're using DOS/Windows.  You can download the
DOS/Windows versions from:

http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/curl-7.10.5-DOS.zip

and

ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/wget/windows/wget-complete-stable.zip

Hope this helps...
Otto

Excelent!
Thats exactly what I wanted.

Thanks very much ottomaaan.

-Axelson.