curl.exe does ship with Windows. Given a Windows 11 ISO freshly downloaded from microsoft.com, we have $ 7z l /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/sources/instal

curl.exe does ship with Windows. Given a Windows 11 ISO freshly downloaded from microsoft.com, we have $ 7z l /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/sources/install.wim | egrep ' 1/Windows/Sys.*/curl.exe' 2024-09-06 00:02:14 ....A 672312 343918 1/Windows/System32/curl.exe 2024-09-06 00:02:14 ....A 585160 323710 1/Windows/SysWOW64/curl.exe This is, in fact, curl: > C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe --version curl 8.9.1 (Windows) libcurl/8.9.1 Schannel zlib/1.3 WinIDN Release-Date: 2024-07-31 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps ipfs ipns mqtt pop3 pop3s smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe Unicode UnixSockets My personal favorite *nix utility nobody knows ships with Windows is tar.exe, which is libarchive's bsdtar and therefore supports a wide variety of archive formats. ["1/…" is 7z syntax for the first image in the WIM file — Windows 11 Home, in this example — included here to avoid redundant output; curl.exe is included in all images. "…/SysWOW64/curl.exe" is a 32-bit curl build (32-bit Windows programs see "Windows\SysWOW64" as "Windows\System32").]