Whats curl? Can someone explain how it works? or Newbie here: whats curl and why is it useful?

Wow, thanks everyone! Didn’t expect so many helpful replies.

I tried the `curl https://example.com` thing and it worked—kinda blew my mind seeing the raw HTML. Still wrapping my head around the flags like `-v` and `-O`, but this makes way more sense now.

Quick follow-up: Is there a way to save the output to a file directly? Like, not just seeing it in the terminal?

Also, shoutout to the person who mentioned jq—gonna check that out next!

Thanks again, y’all are awesome.