curl

Data transfer

Software project home page: http://curl.haxx.se

Distribution: source code

Verify the installed version via the command-line interface:

curl --version

Command Syntax

curl [options...] <url>

Download a file:

curl -C - -Ov <url>

Upload a file to a remote directory using F.T.P.:

curl -T uploadfilename -u username:password ftp://sitename.com/myfile

Configuration options for compiling

For 64-bit operating systems:

./configure CPPFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro" --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib64 --disable-static --enable-threaded-resolver

Dependencies

+bzip2,+grep,+libidn,+openssl,+openldap,+tar

References

http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/curl.html

http://www.t2-project.org/packages/curl.html

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/libs.html

http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/comparison-table.html

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/documentation/curl/index.html

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html

http://www.slashroot.in/curl-command-tutorial-linux-example-usage

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