Brief introduction to cURL and examples

curl_tutorial.txt

Author: Aaron R. Phalen | Twitter: @aaron_phalen | Email: [email protected]

A Curl Introduction With Examples
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Definition: cURL is a software package on linux that utilizes a command line 
interface to transfer data via an URL syntax.  cURL supports ports other than 
80 (HTTP), such as FTP, IMAP, POP3, SFTP, and SMTP.

1. Download a file with cURL.
  curl http://www.google.com --> will get contents of url and display to stdout.
  
2. Download and save contents to file. 
  curl http://www.google.com > sample.txt --> write contents of url to sample.txt file.
  
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