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I was given a shared directory with files on owncloud. To download only some of them to my directory on a remote server, I right-click on a file name, copy the link address and use

wget --no-check-certificate -O 1_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz https://url/index.php/s/download?path=%2F&files=1_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz

instead of downloading just that one file, it tries to download all the files from the directory and crashes because of memory shortage. How do I download files separately in this case?

P.S.: if I just click on the filename on a web browser, it downloads the exact file I need. So wget should download just that file, right? Why does it load all the files?

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Always quote the arguments with special characters

wget --no-check-certificate -O 1_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz 'https://url/index.php/s/download?path=%2F&files=1_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz'
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    I want to stress that it's necessary to use single straight marks, ', not double quotation marks " or backticks or anything. The single quotations marks are the ones that stop the shell from doing any interpretation in the string. Commented May 16, 2022 at 21:30

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