Download of the vscode cli via the terminal (wget) does not work - returns a 404

[IvoLeist]

Dear vscode team,

I was eager to try the new(?) vscode cli today to set up a tunnel to my virtual machine. Hoping that it fixes my download/update extensions issues with the currently used code-server. However, it looks like the direct download link is not wget friendly? See error report below.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: not applicable

• VS Code Version: not applicable
• OS Version: CentOS Stream 8 x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open in your browser: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/?dv=linux64cli
2. Copy the link address of "Try this direct download link."
3. Use wget in the virtual machine to download the cli: wget https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable&os=cli-alpine-x64

wget-log output:

https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable Resolving code.visualstudio.com (code.visualstudio.com)... 13.69.68.34 Connecting to code.visualstudio.com (code.visualstudio.com)|13.69.68.34|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found

[connor4312]

https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable&os=cli-alpine-x64 should be wrapped in quotes: your shell is interpreting the & as a special sequence.

@rzhao271 we should probably have 'actual direct' download links to the CDN, or have a copyable CLI command for users.

[IvoLeist]

Thanks for the quick answer :) Your suggestion indeed resolved the issue for me.

[rzhao271]

Closing this issue to avoid a duplicate with the internalbacklog issue