Re: curl vs. wget (was Re: script browsing)
Re: curl vs. wget (was Re: script browsing)
- Subject: Re: curl vs. wget (was Re: script browsing)
- From: Tom Robinson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:26:49 +1300
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Has anyone done a comparison chart between curl and wget? How would a
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person decide which one to use? I have a vague impresson of curl being
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somehow more "official" or something.
curl is more official because it's bundled with OS X (although in 10.0.something it was wget instead of curl).
curl is great at downloading either a single file or a list of them. It supports more protocols than wget, and can also upload files.
wget will read the pages it's downloaded to find more links to download, and can relink them after downloading. It's great for things like downloading all the thumbnails on a page, downloading all the linked images on a page, or even downloading an entire web site to your local drive complete with directory structure.
Cheers
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