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wcurl: A Simple Wrapper for curl to download files

Do you find it challenging to remember curl's parameters for downloading files?

wcurl can simplify this process. It's a simple wrapper around curl designed to make file downloads easier.

🛠️ Setting Up wcurl

Follow these steps to set up wcurl on your system.

Step 1: Copy the wcurl Shell Script

First, you need to get the wcurl script. You can find it on GitHub. Download and move it to your /usr/bin directory:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Debian/wcurl/main/wcurl
sudo mv wcurl /usr/bin/

Step 2: Make the Script Executable

Next, you need to change the script to executable mode:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/wcurl

💻 using wcurl

Now that you have wcurl set up, you can start using it to download files.

Example: Downloading a File

To download a file using wcurl, simply run:

wcurl https://k8s.io/examples/application/deployment.yaml

Display Help Information

If you need to understand the supported options, you can use the --help flag:

wcurl --help

This will display:

/usr/bin/wcurl -- a simple wrapper around curl to easily download files.

Usage: /usr/bin/wcurl [-o <CURL_OPTIONS>|--opts=<CURL_OPTIONS>] <URL>...

Options:

  -o,--opts <CURL_OPTIONS>: Specify extra options to be
                            passed when invoking curl.

  <URL>: The URL to be downloaded.  May be specified more than once.

using curl options with wcurl

You can use curloptions with wcurl.

Here is an example.

wcurl -o "-o deployment.yaml" https://k8s.io/examples/applicatio
n/deployment.yaml