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# 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
```
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* https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2017/07/ELigman_DownloadAll_Powershell2.txt
* http://www.mssmallbiz.com/ericligman/Key_Shorts/Eligman_DownloadAll_PowerShell.txt
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