Are they the same or not? Can certain things done with one but not with the other? What?
Or is it, at the end of the day, and issue of acquaintance with either tool?
A:
They both offer endless options, most of which I've never used. However, I tend to like wget more as it by default saves the output from the URL you give — perfect for downloading. Curl goes the other way, and displays the output directly to the terminal (by default).
Guðmundur H
2009-03-11 21:03:03
+3
A:
Take a look at this comparison from the curl guy (though it seems reasonably unbiased) for a start.
MarkusQ
2009-03-11 21:04:38
+1
A:
If you are programming, you should use curl. It has a nice api and is available for most languages. Shelling out to the os to run wget is a kludge and shouldn't be done if you have an API interface!
Byron Whitlock
2009-03-11 21:07:05