wcurl: Announcement and More
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Samuel Henrique: Announcing wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files
tl;dr
Whenever you need to download files through the terminal and don't feel like using wget: [...]
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ wcurl is here
Users tell us that remembering what curl options to use when they just want to download the contents of a URL is hard. This is one often repeated reason why some users reach for wget instead of curl on the command line. It downloads the data from the URL without you needing to provide any extra arguments. Without you needing to remember which option(s) to use.
In the curl user survey of 2024, it was again mentioned several times.