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- Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Why not wget?
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 21:14:16 -0300
> None of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, or Solaris ship with wget. The
> former all natively come with an ftp(1) utility capable of fetching files
> over HTTP from the command-line
One learns something new every day! I never knew that ftp in Mac OS X
could handle an URL directly as in
ftp http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.1.tar.gz
It even preserves timestamps without needing any switches!
Perhaps we should update the recipes at http://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.1 ...
