ToddAndMargo wrote:

> Does
>
> $ curl  https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox -o eraseme
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left Speed
> 100   309  100   309    0     0    755      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   753
>
> get written to the STDOUT or the STDERR?

The progress is sent to 'stderr'.

> And does it require a shell (bash) to work?

Any shell should do it. How else did you try this?
Or you haven't tried it?

PS. I think you want a trailing '/' in the URL;
     https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/

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