I really wish busybox would bundle curl instead of wget. In the age of containers, I often find myself having to use wget when operating inside of one with busybox as shell, and I get it wrong on first try.
What usually trips me up is the syntax: `curl -O http://host/file` (goes to stdout without -O) instead of `wget http://host/file` (goes to file without -O)
It doesn't even bundle a proper wget, just a massively stripped down HTTP client it aliases to wget. Sure, providing minimal tools is the point of busybox, but having to sniff what actually runs when you do `wget` is massively annoying. (e.g. until recently, busybox wget didn't believe in HTTPS by default)
Mentioning wget makes me embarrassed for the days (probably 20 years ago) where I used to prefer wget. Curl annoyed me because I couldn’t “simply download a file”. Needed to provide an option just to write the file to disk.
Of course now I feel really icky if im ever forced to use wget. And curl’s feature of defaulting to stdout is of course a perfect thing and makes way more sense than the alternative (for many reasons).
What usually trips me up is the syntax: `curl -O http://host/file` (goes to stdout without -O) instead of `wget http://host/file` (goes to file without -O)