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Ten years ago I explained why #curl defaults to stdout:

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Why curl defaults to stdout

(Recap: I founded the curl project, I am still the lead developer and maintainer) When asking curl to get a URL it'll send the output to stdout by default.
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Peter Krefting
Peter Krefting
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This makes curl is perfect for checking checksums (curl ... | sha256sum -) and checking API results and I always use curl for that. This also makes curl harder to use for downloading files, so I always use wget for that. I's good to have a choice, and to have different tools available for different situations.
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Christen Lofland
Christen Lofland
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I always feel embarrassed, alone at home in my office with nobody watching me of course, when I run curl, see it dump my file to stdout and then use wget instead because I cannot immediately remember how to properly make a file with curl, even though I could spend 30 seconds looking it up. 😅
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