title: Laravel - How to download sample Excel file from the storage
body: <p>I have Excel Import project using Maatwebsite package in Laravel-5.8. I have been able to perform the Excel import and save it into the database successfully.</p>
  
  <p><strong>UserController</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>class UserssController extends Controller
  {
    public function importExportView()
    {
       return view('import');
    }
  
    public function import() 
    {
      Excel::import(new UsersImport,request()-&gt;file('file'));
      return back();
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>user.blade</strong></p>
  
  <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" data-babel="false">
  <div class="snippet-code">
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;div class="container"&gt;
      &lt;div class="card bg-light mt-3"&gt;
          &lt;div class="card-header"&gt;
              Import Excel
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;div class="card-body"&gt;
              &lt;form action="{{ route('import') }}" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data"&gt;
                  @csrf
                  &lt;input type="file" name="file" class="form-control"&gt;
                  &lt;br&gt;
                  &lt;button class="btn btn-success"&gt;Import User Data&lt;/button&gt;
              &lt;/form&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre>
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  </div>
  </p>
  
  <p>However, there is one more thing. I have a sample Excel file. Before import, I want the user to download the sample excel sheet and see how the file format is, and how it should be arranged.</p>
  
  <p>The file is in this directory: public/storage/sample/user.xlsx</p>
  
  <p>How do I modify my code, especially in the view to achieve this?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>