badrihippo,
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Why do people usually suggest and not for downloading files? Is curl more common or something? ⬇️

The same applies for the very dangerous curl | bash, although I have seen my fair share of wget | bashes too... ⚙️

joostvb,
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@badrihippo https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html curl vs wet to me is like tmux vs screen

weepingclown,
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@joostvb @badrihippo this is very interesting!

badrihippo,
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@weepingclown @joostvb

> Wget has (recursive) downloading powers that curl does not feature and it also handle download retries over unreliable connections possibly slightly more effective.

> For just about everything else, curl is probably the more suitable tool

That answers my question! My Internet connection has been historically quite unreliable, which is probably why I ended up using wget more (and the second paragraph explains why everyone else tends to use curl) :terminal:

badrihippo,
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@weepingclown @joostvb I also remember using aria2 at some point. And even gwget 😅

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