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posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 25 2017, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-don't-wget-it dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Microsoft plans to integrate the command line tools tar and curl in the next feature update of Windows 10, out in March 2018.

While we don't know the full name of the next feature update yet, it is clear that it will feature major improvements and additions unlike the rather bleak Fall Creators Update.

Microsoft did mention previously that it plans to publish a major update and later on in the year another update that refines it (see Too many Windows 10 feature updates for an opinion piece on that release strategy).

It is pretty clear though that Microsoft is turning Windows 10 into a jack of all trades system. After adding SSH client and server support in the Fall Creators Update, it now revealed that tar and curl support are coming to Windows 10 as well.

Linux users may shrug their shoulders at this point as the two command line tools have been part of Linux for a long time.

Source: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/21/windows-10-tar-and-curl-support/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 25 2017, @11:35PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 25 2017, @11:35PM (#614167)

    curl [lifewire.com] is a command used to download files via the internet (which you may surmise by breaking the name into 2 pieces: c-URL).

    Way back when I was still running Windoze, there was a 3rd-party wget for Windoze.
    That's similar.

    Back then, GetRight was also a very nice payware download manger (with a GUI).
    Being able to change the destination name for a file -during- the download is especially nice.
    (I ran a copy, using a pirated key.)

    .
    tar is similar in scope to the command line PKzip utility.

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday December 26 2017, @02:37AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday December 26 2017, @02:37AM (#614201) Journal

    I'm sure I'm not saying anything you don't know, but curl and wget are similar but different. wget downloads files and saves them (also has some nice archiving capability by following links). curl will download a file and you can save it if you want, but the default action is to stream the contents into your shell allowing you to pipe the output through whatever filters you want and/or trigger whatever actions you choose.

    I like them both.

  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday December 27 2017, @09:52PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Wednesday December 27 2017, @09:52PM (#614884) Homepage

    That's rather misleading. As the man page says, curl is used to transfer a URL. A URL has nothing to do with files or the Internet, except that many supported protocols involve the Internet, and said protocol servers often serve from files.

    Easiest example with no Internet involved: curl file:///some/local/file

    You can also use curl to send emails via SMTP URLs, which is not downloading a file.

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