Simply typing http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/romfs/genromfs/0.5.2/genromfs-0.5.2.tar.gz works fine on a browser, but I'm trying to download from a CLI environment with limited utilities.
The following just returns an empty file:
curl http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/romfs/genromfs/0.5.2/genromfs-0.5.2.tar.gz How do I get genromfs-0.5.2.tar.gz from sourceforge using curl?
You can do
curl -L http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/romfs/genromfs/0.5.2/genromfs-0.5.2.tar.gz > genromfs.tar.gz to download the file.
The -L tells curl to follow any redirects, which sourceforge normally does.
If wget is available, that would be far simpler.
You have to use -L option, because sourceforge uses redirects to the download location. Try -v switch and you will see headers of requests and answers.
http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/rsync/ describes how project owners can use rsync to download files.
For example, to download all files from https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvn/files/ I used this:
rsync -avP -e ssh pdurbin,[email protected]:/home/frs/project/d/dv/dvn/ . 