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Make a curl behave like wget with an alias
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wget-alias.terminal
alias wget="curl -O --retry 999 --retry-max-time 0 -C -"
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# Line should be placed at ~/.bash_profile
# Source: http://www.mymacosx.com/terminal/wget-replacement-macos.html
# Source: http://superuser.com/questions/142459/persistent-retrying-resuming-downloads-with-curl
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sbraz commented Sep 24, 2025

That's no longer needed with curl ≥ 8.14.0, it has a built-in wcurl alias: https://curl.se/wcurl/.

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