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Huh. I've always thought of them as the opposite - wget is the full featured spidering tool, curl is the easy to run one when I need a command line thing or to
by awkward 11y ago
Huh. I've always thought of them as the opposite - wget is the full featured spidering tool, curl is the easy to run one when I need a command line thing or to bang web stuff into a janky copy and paste workflow.
- Legogris 11y agoThis is interesting. Do you want to give your reasons or is it just an arbitrary habit?
- awkward 11y agowget leaves files everywhere, and isn't useful without picking a few flags to use, carefully. I use it as a tool to check builds for broken links curl is a unix-way type program that interacts with standard out in a pretty predictable way.