curl for bash setup seems to fail

[Sean-McCaffrey]

First time linux user here using Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS with Windows 10 subsystem for Linux and trying to setup up the shell. curl for http://data.biostarhandbook.com/install/bash_profile.txt >> ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc seems to fail. The output I receive is for both is:

$ curl http://data.biostar.com/install/bash_profile.txt >> ~/.bash_profile % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0

With the complete lack of time I suspect that it is not receiving any data. When using cat on bash_profile is empty and bashrc has text but doesn't seem to have anything from the biostar url added. Using the --head command it suggests that the connection with biostar's url is not being made.

$ curl --head http://data.biostar.com/install/bash_profile.txt HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:54:27 GMT Location: http://alere.com Content-Length: 0 X-ORACLE-DMS-ECID: bbbae386-5743-42f3-90ab-ccb5b58b9936-3e21275f X-ORACLE-DMS-RID: 0

I can follow the hyperlink supplied by the text the internet browser running on windows. Any suggestions on what could be going wrong and how to handle it?

[ialbert]

In your example you are using a different domain data.biostar.com The correct domain is data.biostarhandbook.com. Running:

curl http://data.biostarhandbook.com/install/bash_profile.txt

produces the expected output on my system:

#
# Source the settings from .bashrc.
#
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
   source ~/.bashrc
fi

[Sean-McCaffrey]

Thanks for your time. Glad and embarrassed it was something so simple.

[ialbert]

No problem - been there myself. The real headscratchers are often things that we can't see because they are too obvious - we are used to dealing with and solving difficult problems.