Comments on: Building wget for Mac OS X http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/2007/03/05/building-wget-for-mac-os-x/ The Eccentric Logic of An Eclectic Mind Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:58:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Adrian Hoe http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/2007/03/05/building-wget-for-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-60629 Adrian Hoe Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:59:05 +0000 http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/2007/03/14/building-wget-for-mac-os-x/#comment-60629 Lee, Yes, I am aware of curl. The reason I stick with wget is that wget is a standalone utility itself rather than a utility which relies on supporting library like libcurl. Wget is also capable of recursive downloads which curl is not. Sometimes, an old utility program is much better than a new one. Anyway, thanks for the head up. Lee,

Yes, I am aware of curl. The reason I stick with wget is that wget is a standalone utility itself rather than a utility which relies on supporting library like libcurl. Wget is also capable of recursive downloads which curl is not.

Sometimes, an old utility program is much better than a new one.

Anyway, thanks for the head up.

]]> By: Lee http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/2007/03/05/building-wget-for-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-60422 Lee Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:28:10 +0000 http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/2007/03/14/building-wget-for-mac-os-x/#comment-60422 I know this post is old and you may have already figured this out, but mac comes with a program similar to wget called curl. I'm told curl has more features, but regardless they do the same thing. Syntax is different so you'll want to man curl to get used to it. "curl -O " is the basic wget equivalent command. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL for more info. I know this post is old and you may have already figured this out, but mac comes with a program similar to wget called curl. I’m told curl has more features, but regardless they do the same thing. Syntax is different so you’ll want to man curl to get used to it. “curl -O ” is the basic wget equivalent command.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL for more info.

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