What is better, curl or wget?

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flybywire picture flybywire · Mar 11, 2009 · Viewed 75.4k times · Source

Are they the same or not? Can certain things be done with one but not the other? What are those? Or is it, at the end of the day, a matter of familiarity?

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Byron Whitlock picture Byron Whitlock · Mar 11, 2009

If you are programming, you should use curl. It has a nice api and is available for most languages. Shelling out to the os to run wget is a kludge and shouldn't be done if you have an API interface!

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