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Do one thing and do it well. IMHO cURL is the best tool for interacting with HTTP and wget is the best tool for downloading files.
by shapeshed 12y ago
Do one thing and do it well.
IMHO cURL is the best tool for interacting with HTTP and wget is the best tool for downloading files.
- nkozyra 12y agoThis is a good way to put it, especially since people tend to use them analogously.
- digi_owl 12y agoPretty much. i keep seeing curl being used as the "back end" of web browsers, fueling the likes of webkit. Wget on the other hand end up within shell scripts and similar (i have before me a distro where the package manager is made of shell scripts, core utils and wget).
- qwerta 12y ago+1, curl is like swiss army knife and wget is fixed blade knife ;-)