On Windows, curl behaves differently in the old and new terminals.

curl stands for “client URL” tool. For detailed usage, see Ruan Yifeng's blog post curl Usage Guide - Ruan Yifeng's Blog (ruanyifeng.com).

I only use it to download web pages, because some files exist as web pages and are not very convenient to save directly to your local machine.

Old terminal: CMD

Just use a command like the following.

$ curl -O https://www.example.com/foo/bar.html

This saves the server response to a file and uses the last part of the URL as the filename. The command above saves the server response to a file named bar.html .

New terminal: PowerShell

Use a command like the following.

$ curl -O bar.html -uri https://www.example.com/foo/bar.html

-O specifies the output filename; without this option, the server response will be displayed in the terminal.

-uri specifies the original server address.