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mikepurvis on Nov 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why curl defaults to stdout

I think the biggest nuisance with this strategy is that neither tool is included by default on the machines I'm usually working with— wget is missing from my Mac, and curl is missing from my Ubuntu servers.

Both can be quickly rectified, but it's still a pretty big pain.

js2 on Nov 17, 2014 [–]

The obvious solution is to submit a patch to curl, such that when it's called as "wget", it emulates wget's command-line options, and vice versa.

Witten only partially in jest. I've submitted patches to both projects and both are relatively straight-forward code bases to dive in to.

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