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Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide
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Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide

by Daniel J. Barrett
June 2012
Beginner
227 pages
5h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Web Commands

curl

Download web pages and files.

wget

Download multiple web pages and files.

Your Mac comes with a web browser, Safari, and you can also install Firefox, Google Chrome, or other third party browsers. Through the Terminal, however, you can interact with the web in other ways. The two commands we cover, curl and wget, can both hit web pages and download files from the command line, but they have different features and advantages.

As a reminder, you can open any URL from the command line, launching your default web browser, with the open command, as we saw in Controlling Processes:

open http://...                Any URL
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