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Mastering curl: interactive text guide
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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
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I commend the author for watching and subsequently summarizing this into a blog article, but in the age of LLMs like ChatGPT I cannot be arsed anymore to memorize any of the arcane command line arguments of curl, ffmpeg and the like.
With CLI, all you need for most use cases is "command --help" or "tldr command" or the beginning of "man command". Been using curl for ages with just that. This blog post is only if you want something in depth to master it, not a requirement to use it.
A GUI is all about figuring things out and it is often pretty clunky compared to a cli, imo.