Curl vs Wget: Which One Should You Use for Your Command-Line Downloads? or Curl vs Wget – What's the

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Honestly, I use both depending on the mood lol. Curl for API fiddling, wget for scraping.

Fun fact: curl supports way more protocols (even SMTP!), but wget’s --limit-rate flag is clutch for throttling.

If you mix up flags, alias them in your .bashrc! Saves me from facepalming daily.

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