How to download package from Nexus using curl?

	$URL = "http://nexusrepo/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?r=my-snapshot&g=my.group.id&a=my.artifact.id&v=1.10.0-SNAPSHOT&c=win32.win32.x86_64&p=zip"
	$username = "nexus"
	$password = "nexus"
	$auth=$username+":"+$password
	$Encoded = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($auth)
	$EncodedPassword = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($Encoded)
	$latestArtifactURL = Invoke-WebRequest $url -Headers @{Authorization = "Basic $EncodedPassword"} -MaximumRedirection 0
	$redirectedMessage = "$latestArtifactURL".IndexOf('http:')
	$targetURL = "$latestArtifactURL".SubString("$redirectedMessage")
	Invoke-WebRequest $targetURL -Headers @{Authorization = "Basic $EncodedPassword"} -OutFile "MyApp.zip"

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	$ curl -sSL -X GET -G "http://mynexus3.local/service/rest/v1/search/assets" \
	-d repository=maven-snapshots \
	-d maven.groupId=my.group.id \
	-d maven.artifactId=my-artifact \
	-d maven.baseVersion=1.0-SNAPSHOT \
	-d maven.extension=jar \
	-d maven.classifier=jar-with-dependencies \
	\| grep -Po '"downloadUrl" : "\K.+(?=",)' \
	\| xargs curl -fsSL -o my-artifact.jar

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	# Download entire repository from Nexus 3.37.1

	sourceServer=
	sourceRepo=
	sourceUser=
	sourcePassword=
	logfile=$sourceRepo-backup.log
	outputFile=$sourceRepo-artifacts.txt

	# ======== GET DOWNLOAD URLs =========
	url=$sourceServer"/service/rest/v1/assets?repository="$sourceRepo
	contToken="initial"
	while [ ! -z "$contToken" ]; do
	if [ "$contToken" != "initial" ]; then
	url=$sourceServer"/service/rest/v1/assets?continuationToken="$contToken"&repository="$sourceRepo
	fi
	echo Processing repository token: $contToken \| tee -a $logfile
	response=`curl -ksSL -u "$sourceUser:$sourcePassword" -X GET --header 'Accept: application/json' "$url"`
	readarray -t artifacts < <( jq '[.items[].downloadUrl]' <<< "$response" )
	printf "%s\n" "${artifacts[@]}" > artifacts.temp
	sed 's/\"//g' artifacts.temp > artifacts1.temp
	sed 's/,//g' artifacts1.temp > artifacts.temp
	sed 's/[][]//g' artifacts.temp > artifacts1.temp
	cat artifacts1.temp >> $outputFile
	#for filter in "${filters[@]}"; do
	# cat artifacts.temp \| grep "$filter" >> $outputFile
	#done
	#cat maven-public-artifacts.txt
	contToken=( $(echo $response \| sed -n 's\|."continuationToken" : "$[^"]$".*\|\1\|p') )
	done


	# ======== DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING =========
	echo Downloading artifacts...
	urls=($(cat $outputFile)) > /dev/null 2>&1
	for url in "${urls[@]}"; do
	path=${url#http://:///}
	dir=$sourceRepo"/"${path%/*}
	mkdir -p $dir
	cd $dir
	pwd
	curl -vks -u "$sourceUser:$sourcePassword" -D response.header -X GET "$url" -O >> /dev/null 2>&1
	responseCode=`cat response.header \| sed -n '1p' \| cut -d' ' -f2`
	if [ "$responseCode" == "200" ]; then
	echo Successfully downloaded artifact: $url
	else
	echo ERROR: Failed to download artifact: $url with error code: $responseCode
	fi
	rm response.header > /dev/null 2>&1
	cd $curFolder
	done

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	curl -X 'POST' \
	'http://<SERVER_IP_ADDRESS>:<PORT_NUMBER>/service/rest/v1/components?repository=<REPO_NAME>' \
	-H 'accept: application/json' \
	-H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
	-H 'Authorization: Basic <NEXUSCRED>' \
	-F 'raw.directory=<DIR_NAME>' \
	-F 'raw.asset1=@<FILE_NAME>.zip;type=application/x-zip-compressed' \
	-F 'raw.asset1.filename=<FILE_NAME>.zip'


	curl -X 'POST' \
	'http://localhost:8082/service/rest/v1/components?repository=devopsrepo' \
	-H 'accept: application/json' \
	-H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
	-H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=' \
	-F 'raw.directory=devops ' \
	-F 'raw.asset1=@C:\Nexus\devops-1.0.0.0.zip;type=application/x-zip-compressed' \
	-F 'raw.asset1.filename=devops-1.0.0.0.zip'


	curl -O --output-dir /some-dir http://<SERVER_IP_ADDRESS>:<PORT_NUMBER>/repository/<REPO_NAME>/<DIR_NAME>/<FILE_NAME>.zip

	curl -O --output-dir C:/Nexus/package http://localhost:8082/repository/devopsrepo/devops/devops-1.0.0.0.zip

	curl -L -X GET 'https://MY_NEXUS/service/rest/v1/search/assets/download?sort=version&repository=MY-REPO&group=MY_GROUP&name=MY_ARTIFACT_NAME&maven.baseVersion=0.1-SNAPSHOT' --output some.file

	# Getting the name of the latest artifact in a raw nexus repository
	curl -L -X GET "nexus-url/service/rest/v1/search/assets/?sort=version&repository=management&group=rpms.test"

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	wget --user=username --password=password "http://<ip>:<port>/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/content?g=<group>&a=<artifact>&v=<version>&r=snapshots"

	wget --user=userid --password=password 'https://nexusurl:8081/nexus/repository/<repository id>/<replace the grouf is . with />/<artifact id>/<version>/<file name>' -O ${WORKSPACE}/<new file name>

	wget --http-user myusername --http-password=mypassword https://nexus.example.com/myfile.zip

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