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What is the difference between curl and wget?

I am keen to know the difference between curl and wget. Both are used to get files and documents but what the key difference between them... Why are there two different methods?
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Throttle the download speed of wget or curl while downloading

Is it possible to throttle (limit) the download speed of wget or curl ? Is it possible to change the throttle value while it is downloading ?
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How to use wget or other tool to download a file, for which the link is hidden(activates on-click only)

I want to to download some subtitle files, stored in rar files form http://subs.sab.bz/ The site provides rss feeds for its new releases. Unfortunately, the link provided will open a download page, ...
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How do I create a local copy of a complete website section from OSX using curl?

I'm trying to download Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform so that I can read through it off-line on my iPad (which doesn't have an Internet connection) I have used wget in Linux. It seems ...
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Alert when a process exits

I often download files using wget and cURL. Is there anyway I can make my Linux box give a visual alert when either of those processes exit (i.e: the download completes) PS : I am using Ubuntu ...