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

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Curl is the terminal’s way of surfing the web. No buttons, just commands.

You’d use it for:
- Fetching data (like weather APIs)
- Uploading files via FTP
- Debugging weird web behavior

Example: `curl -X GET "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"` gets you GitHub’s test user data.

For more, [curl’s official site](https://curl.se/) has tons of examples.

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