wcurl is a command line tool which lets you download URLs without having to remember any parameters.

Invoke wcurl with a list of URLs you want to download and wcurl will pick sane defaults; using curl under the hood. See the man page.

Install

Starting with curl 8.14.0, wcurl comes bundled in the regular curl release tarballs. Building and installing curl then also installs wcurl and its man page.

Manual install

Install wcurl manually like this:

$ curl -fLO https://github.com/curl/wcurl/releases/latest/download/wcurl
$ chmod +x wcurl
$ sudo mv wcurl /usr/local/bin/wcurl

Install wcurl's manpage manually like this:

$ curl -fLO https://github.com/curl/wcurl/releases/latest/download/wcurl.1
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1/
$ sudo mv wcurl.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/wcurl.1
$ sudo mandb

Pronunciation

"double-u curl"