curl instead of wget

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 5 06:25:15 UTC 2009


Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 10:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In documentation, wherever we are using wget, it is probably better to 
>> use curl instead since wget is not installed by default on the Live CD 
>> while curl is. Just a thought.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
> I ran into this problem (missing wget) after installing from the F10
> LiveCD, so I can relate.  However, I've no experience with curl, and I
> must say, curl --help is somewhat intimidating.  Is it as
> straightforward to use as wget, especially for someone that may be new
> (e.g., the majority of those using documentation on a new installation
> of Fedora)?

The basic usage is simple.

curl <url>

If you want to suggest wget be (re-)added, that is a fedora-desktop list 
discussion.

Rahul




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