Use cURL instead of wget on Mac OS X

by Ron on July 2, 2008

I use wget all the time on my Linux machines, but was surprised to find it missing on my MacBook Pro. Since Mac OS is based on BSD, it uses cURL instead. Here’s a good way to scrape files from a remote server.

curl -O http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21171/mp3/21171-[01-24].mp3

Man page is available at: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html

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Kevin Korb 07.22.09 at 3:04 pm

Or you could just download and install wget.

Step 1 and 2 deal with that here: http://kevinkorb.com/post/24

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dongcalmada 06.13.10 at 5:04 am

Thanks for the tip. That -O parameter worked for me :P

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