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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

that sounds like a useful improvement and is what kept me on wget back then for a long time, too.
I'm still stumbling over -fL and every now and then get annoyed by having to specify that, but I understand why curl doesn't, by default.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Nice to read this:
'You know... "it's that wget alternative for when you want to use curl instead"'

and followed by:
'wcurl will come installed with the curl package from now on'

Congrats all team involved!

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I would have liked wurl as a name, but oh well :D.

This seems like a nice shortcut/wrapper though.

in reply to Bubu

@Bubu interesting suggestion, it would go beyond my English abilities to be able to say that word, though, hahahaha
@Bubu
in reply to Samuel Henrique

well it's basically analogous to whirl, whorl, whurl isn't it?

But anyway, I probably prefer that because my German brain just can't read wcurl as double-u-curl, so it becomes something like ~whey-curl which doesn't roll of the tounge very nicely. That might be a me-problem though :).

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in reply to Bubu

@Bubu I confess I did think about "wc" but that one was taken a long time ago 😁
@Bubu
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

neato, thank you for mentioning this! Gave me a chance to offer a hopefully useful little behavior tweak to diminish potential surprise behavior, github.com/Debian/wcurl/pull/9
in reply to Schamschula

@schamschula I'd love to say the same for Homebrew, but without any releases that'll be a tough sell.

Any chance we can get a tag to package it?

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

yes, that's going to be fixed later today along with some other changes (including non-linux support)
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in reply to Samuel Henrique

@SMillerNL @schamschula

We now have tagged releases, besides non-linux support (we dropped getopt) and a few other things.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I don't get it. A new binary because people can't remember the switches? Alias the command with switches and no extra binary needed.

alias wcurl='curl -L -O -C'

in reply to Christoph Stoettner

@stoeps 1. it's not a binary, it's a 100-line script. 2. I didn't do it, I just mention it here. 3. lots of people seem to see the point
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daniel:// stenberg://
@duxsco @stoeps when your "simple" alias works for all different shells ppl use, it is a shell script...
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I'm waiting for this 200 line simple bash script to explode into a 10k lines of pure bash warship!