cURL

cURL allows us to send web requests from the terminal.

CLI tool that primarily supports HTTP but also works with other protocols.

Using cURL is simple:

curl <site>

cURL can also be used to download a page or file and then output the contents within a file.

-O to save in current directory with same name -o to specify the name

-s will silence CLI status updates -h to see other options --help all for more details

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