Alternatives to popular CLI tools: curl

This article spotlights alternative tools to curl.

The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.

Alternatives to curl
Wget2	Successor of Wget
Wget	Makes retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy
aria2	Multi-protocol and multi-source command-line download utility
HTTPie	HTTP client with an intuitive user interface
curlie	The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie
xh	Fast and friendly tool for sending HTTP requests
hurl	Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
TerminusDM	User-friendly terminal interface for managing your downloads efficiently
getparty	HTTP download manager with multi-parts
Restish	CLI for interacting with REST-ish HTTP APIs
Posting	Terminal-based HTTP client for developing and testing APIs
Slumber	Terminal-based HTTP client

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All the CLI tools in this series.

Alternatives to CLI tools
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Alternatives to CLI tools

age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // file // find // free // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // stow // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs

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