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Have you ever found a something on the web and wanted to download it but there isn’t a link? If you have the URL but don’t have a link that you can right-click to save, you can use this little MSH script:

Put the following into a file called download-file.msh:

$webclient = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$start = $args[0].LastIndexOf("/") + 1
$len = $args[0].LastIndexOf("?") - $start
if( $len -lt 0 ) { $len = $args[0].Length - $start  }
$target = [System.IO.Path]::Combine( $(get-location), $args[0].Substring( $start, $len ) )
$webclient.DownloadFile($args[0], $target)

Now from a MSH prompt you can type…

MSH:1> download-file "http://www.peterprovost.org/Skins/peter2/Images/Title.png"

…and it will download the header image from my blog to your current directory. You can use it with just about anything.

Enjoy!