5 Extra Uses For Curl That Don’t Involve Web Requests

Tate Galbraith
Geek Culture
Published in
4 min readApr 22, 2021

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The curl program is a staple of any good software developer’s toolbox. It makes requests from the console quickly and easily, is available on just about everything and has a boat load of built in extra functionality. So much extra, in fact, that you might not know about some of curl’s other handy abilities.

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Tate Galbraith
Geek Culture

Software Engineer @mixhalo & die-hard Rubyist. Amateur Radio operator with a love for old technology. Tweet at me: https://twitter.com/@Tate_Galbraith