diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 55c331c..579d7df 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,31 +1,19 @@ # Microsoft giveaway books downloader Get Microsoft give away books using bash. For more information about Microsoft Give Away books see: -* https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2017/07/11/largest-free-microsoft-ebook-giveaway-im-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-office-365-office-2016-power-bi-azure-windows-8-1-office-2013-sharepo/ - -If it doesn't work, see: - * https://web.archive.org/web/20170712035739/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2017/07/11/largest-free-microsoft-ebook-giveaway-im-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-office-365-office-2016-power-bi-azure-windows-8-1-office-2013-sharepo/ +* https://web.archive.org/web/20210628203253/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/mssmallbiz/free-thats-right-im-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-office-365-office-2016-power-bi-azure-windows-8-1-office-2013-sharepoint-2016-sha # What is the reason? -Microsoft creates a GIVE AWAY every year and put there a lot of books that you can download FREELY, but there are only option to download they one to one and not all at once in a ZIP or similar format. +Microsoft creates give aways occasionally and put there a lot of books that you can download FREELY, but there are not options to download them programmatically in Linux (there's a script for Windows, see below the Windows section). # How I can get the books? -You can just use [my script](https://github.com/Edu4rdSHL/microsoft-giveaway-books/raw/master/script.sh) to download they. Write in your terminal: +Just use [my script](https://github.com/Edu4rdSHL/microsoft-giveaway-books/raw/master/script.sh) to download them. Write in your terminal: -**Note:** You need `wget` installed in your system. +**Note:** You need `curl` installed in your system, it's installed by default on almost any distro. ``` -$ curl -O https://github.com/Edu4rdSHL/microsoft-giveaway-books/raw/master/script.sh && sh script.sh -``` -Or -``` -$ wget -O https://github.com/Edu4rdSHL/microsoft-giveaway-books/raw/master/script.sh && sh script.sh -``` - -Or if you don't care for error checking or other misc stuff on your terminal -``` -$ wget -q --content-disposition $(curl -s https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2017/07/Ligman_eBooks_2017.txt | tail -n +2 | awk {'print $1'}) +$ curl -O https://github.com/Edu4rdSHL/microsoft-giveaway-books/raw/master/script.sh && bash script.sh ``` @@ -36,4 +24,4 @@ For windows you can use any of the scripts provided in: * https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2017/07/ELigman_DownloadAll_Powershell2.txt * http://www.mssmallbiz.com/ericligman/Key_Shorts/Eligman_DownloadAll_PowerShell.txt -Give me a star and enjoy it. +Enjoy it.