


The trick is that any link to a shared file is assuming that the user will interact with it within a browser, not download it (which would result in some HTML front page to be downloaded.) To get that file I needed to download it, and the easiest way is to use wget. The script was on the “colab” system on Google (see below,) a web-based free service. But I needed the file as well to test the notebook. The author of the (Jupyter notebook python) script did not have to worry about transferring the file as the file was already within the author’s Google drive folder. I was recently faced with this dilemma when I was trying a set of command examples that used a shared google drive file. However, sometimes it may be useful, or even necessary, to access and download a file from a command line, for example downloading the file with the wget utility. The problem: transfer file between cloudsįiles on Google drive can be shared between users, but the default access to the file is via a web browser graphical interface.
