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