curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP). The command is designed to work without user interaction. curl offers proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file transfer resume, Metalink, and more.
Use cases: | download files download via ftp upload files upload via ftp |
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License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
What's new? | Full changelog at https://curl.se/changes.html. |
Wget is a non-interactive utility for downloading files using the HTTPS, HTTP and FTP protocols. It can resume interrupted downloads, use file name wild cards, supports proxies and cookies, and convert absolute links in downloaded documents to relative links.
Wget is a popular tool with multiple ports/implementations for Windows.
Wget2 is being developed (see https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2).
Use cases: | download files download via ftp |
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License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
How to extract: | See parent package(s) or port(s). |
What's new? | Latest upstream changelog at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9913. |
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Midas
on 2021-02-11 20:45
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Upstream v1.21 released 2021-01-09 (changelog at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9913). |
Swiss File Knife (SFK) is a multi-function command line tool designed to avoid having to install many small tools. Swiss File Knife can find text in binary files, calculate directory sizes, find duplicate files, join a split file back to whole, calculate and verify MD5 hashes, show a hex dump of a binary file, print first/last lines of a text file, convert line endings, download files from the Internet, and more.
Use cases: | download files |
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Unicode support: | Partial. Some commands can't handle Unicode characters in file names. |
License: | FreeBSD FOSS |
How to extract: | Download sfk.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
What's new? |
See: http://stahlworks.com/dev/?tool=sfkver |
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SYSTEM
on 2020-02-08 10:57
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No, it's today. From https://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfileknife/files/1-swissfileknife/1.9.6.0/ |