11 · The Command Line
curl / wget
Fetch from the internet by command
Tools that download a URL or call an API straight from the terminal — curl is the Swiss-army version, wget is for simple file downloads.
Concrete example
“curl https://api.example.com/status” hits an API and prints the response — great for a quick test.
Why it matters
How you poke an API or grab a file without a browser, and how install scripts download themselves.