wget vs curl: Which One Should You Use for Your Command-Line Downloads? or wget vs curl: What's the B

Honestly, why choose? I use both depending on the task.

Wget for recursive downloads—like grabbing a whole directory of files.

Curl for quick one-offs or when I need to tweak headers.

Pro tip: If you’re on a Mac, curl is already there. Wget? Gotta brew install it first.

Both have their place. It’s not wget vs curl, it’s wget *and* curl.