CURL instead of WGET

In Docker containers

Often in docker containers you find this way of downloading files:

It begs the question, why put an extra tool? Wget can be easily and simply replaced by the default curl (well, not always, but the chance of it being there is higher than the plague of the same wget).

What is written above can be replaced by the following line:

Well, if you work on a system where there is no wget, but, for some reason, you need wget, you can create such an alias (as an option):

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