How to fake wget on Mac OS X
I was brought up using wget to download files from the command line, and cannot seem to train myself to switch to curl, with is the default on OS X. Rather than find and install the former, I simply added the following alias to my .bash_profile:
alias wget="curl -O"
This is a simple solution that meets my needs and saves me some occasional keystrokes and frustration. It only works for simple downloads, but if I need to do something fancy I’m going to end up reading a man page anyway, and I’m just as happy to read the curl manpage in that case.