curl vs wget
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
curl is the Swiss Army knife — it handles every HTTP method, protocol, and header you can dream of. wget is the reliable downloader — recursive, resumable, can mirror whole websites. They overlap but have different hearts. Rule of thumb: curl for APIs and testing, wget for 'download everything in this directory' tasks.
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HTTPie
curl is powerful but its syntax reads like a crossword puzzle. HTTPie is curl for people who like readable commands: 'http GET api.example.
jq
Your API returns 400 lines of JSON. You want just the name field from every object in the users array. 'curl url | jq .users[].name' does it in one pipe.
ripgrep
ripgrep (rg) does what grep does but much faster and smarter. It automatically skips node_modules, .git dirs, and anything in your .gitignore.