Equivalent of wget command line for windows 8.1

Question

I'm using git bash as my command line interface in my working environment.

Is there a wget command available for windows 8.1?

Answer 1

You can use curl instead of wget.

curl http://www.google.com/

Answer 2

Windows 8.1 PowerShell has both the wget and the curl commands.

The both perform identically as if they are synonyms for each other.

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Example - to retrieve http://www.sdsolarblog.com/montage/show.html

PS C:/users/Admin> curl http://www.sdsolarblog.com/montage/show.html

or

PS C:/users/Admin> wget http://www.sdsolarblog.com/montage/show.html

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Here is what it looks like in practice:

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To download the entire raw file you want to add the -outfile option like so:

PS C:/users/Admin> curl http://www.sdsolarblog.com/montage/show.html -outfile show.html