rsync curl cli tools

cli_tools

cURL

Curl is a command line utility used for multi purpose, basically it is defined as the tool that can transfer data using various protocols such as DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet, Gopher, TFTP and much more. Curl supports SSL certificates and HTTP PUT or HTTP POST features too. In a simple statement we can say that curl can get information and send information via one of the protocol mentioned above. How is it useful for web developers? Curl can send response headers of any website, it can be used to find out the look-up time, connect time or generally saying to check the time consumed in order to reach a website. Its uses are unlimited and it comes as a default software in most of the Linux operating systems. In case if it is not available, you can install it easily with this command.

Install curl in Linux

$sudo apt-get install curl
$su -c "yum install curl"

RSYNC

rsync is a command line utility used to synchronize files from one location to another by minimize the data transfer using delta encoding when needed. This tool is very useful for web developers to synchronize their project in different places, either it a local drive or an online server. This tools helps in minimizing the data transfer for those limited bandwidth users. hence rsync is also considered as one of the essential tools for web developers. Installing rsync is very simple

$sudo apt-get install rsync
$su -c "yum install rsync"