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Wget has more powerful recursive downloading capabilities than curl, and is better at handling download retries over unreliable connections.
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However, for most other tasks, curl is the more suitable tool.
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Additionally, wget2 is being developed to replace wget.
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The main difference between them is that curl will show the output in the console, while wget will download it into a file.
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Wget has (recursive) downloading powers that curl does not feature and it also handle download retries over unreliable connections possibly slightly more effective.
For just about everything else, curl is probably the more suitable tool.
In recent years, wget2 is worked on to become the replacement for wget.
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