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For more than 20 years, I’ve downloaded files using wget because I could never remember curl options.

It turns out that I was not alone.

@samueloph created a simple wrapper around curl called "wcurl". This is brilliant! And, yes, the name is very intuitive. Best of all, it is already in Debian (and on my system) but it should really be part of the official curl distribution (ping @bagder )
samueloph.dev/blog/announcing-…

#curl #debian

in reply to ploum

as a non-native speaker of English I always read "w(e)get" (mostly in my head, e pretty silent), not "double yu get". wcurl standing for "we curl" (instead of we wget) would be a nice statement :)