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25 years of being told I should switch, and I still i never GET the time to learned curl's syntax! don't worry, i'm sure i'll wget to it soon
by fsckboy 4y ago
25 years of being told I should switch, and I still i never GET the time to learned curl's syntax! don't worry, i'm sure i'll wget to it soon
- jraph 4y agoI use both :-) Wget to download stuff in an interactive shell (shorter, and I know its -c switch to continue interrupted downloads), curl for anything else.
- atoav 4y agoI would also say both has it's place. Wget is the downloader, curl is for when I really need control over the request, headers, body and so on (so interactions with APIs, testing, ...)
- ricardo81 4y agoI think I'm just young enough for curl to have become my habit (started web dev in the late 90s). I feel the same way about wget. --help every time.
- flerchin 4y agoOpen the network tab in your browser's dev-tools. Right click on any interesting request and "Copy as cURL." Now you're well on your way to using cURL to do something interesting.
- verhovsky 4y agohttps://curlconverter.com/wget/ https://curlconverter.com/wget/ will turn that curl command into a Wget command.
- ufmace 4y agoI never got the hang of it either. I still prefer httpie for having a better syntax and better support of plugins AFAICT.