title: Where does curl put downloads?
body: <h1>Original Question</h1>
  
  <p>We are downloading several large files with <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/" rel="noreferrer"><code>cURL</code></a>. </p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -O -L -k "https://www.modern.ie/vmdownload?browserOS=IE8-Win7&amp;parts=4&amp;platform=Windows&amp;virtPlatform=vpc&amp;filename=VMBuild_20141027/VPC/IE8/Windows/IE8.Win7.For.Windows.VPC.zip{.001,.002,.003,.004}"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Where do the downloads land?</p>
  
  <h1>Edit 1 Follow-up Question</h1>
  
  <p>Our command prompt is at <code>C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe</code>. When I look through that directory, I don't find the downloaded file, which I would expect to be <code>IE8.Win7.For.Windows.VPC.zip.001</code>. This is the cURL output.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[1/4]: https://the-long-url/IE8.Win7.For.Windows.VPC.zip.001 
      --&gt; IE8.Win7.For.Windows.VPC.zip.001 
      --_curl_--https://the-long-url/IE8.Win7.For.Windows.VPC.zip.001
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Palu said, "the download will go to the current working directory for when this was executed." Why isn't it there?</p>
  
  <h1>Edit 2 Follow-up Answer</h1>
  
  <p>Why isn't it there? Because although we were running <code>C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe</code>, we were running it from <code>C:\Users\shaun.luttin</code>.</p>