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It's mostly a filler word. I've read through each use of it in the code base and did minor rephrasings when "simply" carried some meaning. The overwhelming majority of cases, removing it improved the text significantly. Inspired by #20793. Closes #20822
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---
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c: Copyright (C) Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org>, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@debian.org> and many contributors, see the AUTHORS file.
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SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
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Title: wcurl
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Section: 1
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Source: wcurl
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See-also:
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- curl (1)
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- trurl (1)
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Added-in: n/a
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---
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# NAME
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**wcurl** - a simple wrapper around curl to easily download files.
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# SYNOPSIS
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**wcurl \<URL\>...**
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**wcurl [--curl-options \<CURL_OPTIONS\>]... [--dry-run] [--no-decode-filename] [-o|-O|--output \<PATH\>] [--] \<URL\>...**
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**wcurl [--curl-options=\<CURL_OPTIONS\>]... [--dry-run] [--no-decode-filename] [--output=\<PATH\>] [--] \<URL\>...**
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**wcurl -V|--version**
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**wcurl -h|--help**
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# DESCRIPTION
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**wcurl** is a simple curl wrapper which lets you use curl to download files
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without having to remember any parameters.
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Call **wcurl** with a list of URLs you want to download and **wcurl**
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picks sane defaults.
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If you need anything more complex, you can provide any of curl's supported
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parameters via the **--curl-options** option. Beware that you likely should be
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using curl directly if your use case is not covered.
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By default, **wcurl** does:
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## * Percent-encode whitespace in URLs;
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## * Download multiple URLs in parallel
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if the installed curl's version is \>= 7.66.0 (--parallel);
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## * Use a total number of 5 parallel connections to the same protocol + hostname + port number target
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if the installed curl's version is \>= 8.16.0 (--parallel-max-host);
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## * Follow redirects;
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## * Automatically choose a filename as output;
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## * Avoid overwriting files
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if the installed curl's version is \>= 7.83.0 (--no-clobber);
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## * Perform retries;
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## * Set the downloaded file timestamp
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to the value provided by the server, if available;
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## * Default to https
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if the URL does not contain any scheme;
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## * Disable curl's URL globbing parser
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so {} and [] characters in URLs are not treated specially;
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## * Percent-decode the resulting filename;
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## * Use 'index.html' as the default filename
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if there is none in the URL.
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# OPTIONS
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## --curl-options, --curl-options=\<CURL_OPTIONS\>...
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Specify extra options to be passed when invoking curl. May be specified more
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than once.
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## -o, -O, --output, --output=\<PATH\>
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Use the provided output path instead of getting it from the URL. If multiple
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URLs are provided, resulting files share the same name with a number appended to
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the end (curl \>= 7.83.0). If this option is provided multiple times, only the
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last value is considered.
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## --no-decode-filename
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Do not percent-decode the output filename, even if the percent-encoding in the
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URL was done by **wcurl**, e.g.: The URL contained whitespace.
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## --dry-run
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Do not actually execute curl, print what would be invoked.
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## -V, \--version
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Print version information.
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## -h, \--help
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Print help message.
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# CURL_OPTIONS
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Any option supported by curl can be set here. This is not used by **wcurl**; it
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is instead forwarded to the curl invocation.
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# URL
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URL to be downloaded. Anything that is not a parameter is considered
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an URL. Whitespace is percent-encoded and the URL is passed to curl, which
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then performs the parsing. May be specified more than once.
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# EXAMPLES
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Download a single file:
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**wcurl example.com/filename.txt**
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Download two files in parallel:
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**wcurl example.com/filename1.txt example.com/filename2.txt**
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Download a file passing the **--progress-bar** and **--http2** flags to curl:
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**wcurl --curl-options="--progress-bar --http2" example.com/filename.txt**
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* Resume from an interrupted download. The options necessary to resume the download (`--clobber --continue-at -`) must be the **last** options specified in `--curl-options`. Note that the only way to resume interrupted downloads is to allow wcurl to overwrite the destination file:
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**wcurl --curl-options="--clobber --continue-at -" example.com/filename.txt**
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Download multiple files without a limit of concurrent connections per host (the default limit is 5):
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**wcurl --curl-options="--parallel-max-host 0" example.com/filename1.txt example.com/filename2.txt**
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# AUTHORS
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Samuel Henrique \<samueloph@debian.org\>
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Sergio Durigan Junior \<sergiodj@debian.org\>
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and many contributors, see the AUTHORS file.
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# REPORTING BUGS
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If you experience any problems with **wcurl** that you do not experience with
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curl, submit an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/curl/wcurl
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# COPYRIGHT
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**wcurl** is licensed under the curl license
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