Display all content with Invoke-WebRequest

Question

So I decided to start using PowerShell rather than Command Prompt. And I want to run curl. Very different output then discover that curl is an alias to

Answer 1

Unlike the curl command line utility Invoke-WebRequest returns an object with various properties of which the content of the requested document is just one. You can get the content in a single statement by expanding the property like this:

Invoke-WebRequest 'http://www.example.org/' | Select-Object -Expand Content

or by getting the property value via dot-notation like this:

(Invoke-WebRequest 'http://www.example.org/').Content

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Alternatively you could use the Windows port of curl:

& curl.exe 'http://www.example.org/'

Call the program with its extension to distinguish it from the alias curl for Invoke-WebRequest.