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		eru on Jan 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop ... Or use curl, for a slightly better engineered wget.

copsarebastards on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

I'm pretty proficient in both, and I think that's a mischaracterization of the two tools. wget is more suited to pulling down large files, groups of files, etc. curl is more suited to API calls where you might need to do something complicated at the protocol level. Each has their use.

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