wget replacement, allows command line download using curl with the format: download https://central.github.com/setup.msi

CurlDownload.java

import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Creates a temporary batch file to run curl to download files.
 * uses the url from args for the command.
 * This file must be compiled in a class (c:\batch\CurlDownload.class)
 * to work with the download.bat file.
 */
public class CurlDownload {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
	    //get the url from args
		String url = args[0];
		//strip the file name from the url
		String fileName = args[0].substring(args[0].lastIndexOf("/")+1); 
		//create the temporary batch file
		FileWriter myWriter = new FileWriter("tempcurl.bat");
		
		// downloads to c:\download, this can be changed 
		// or even modified with JFileChooser.showSaveDialog  
		myWriter.write("@echo off\ncurl " 
			+ url + " --output c:\\download\\" 
			+ fileName + "\ncd c:\\download\n");
		myWriter.close();
	}
}

download.bat

:: A very simple batch file that works with Java and curl 
:: to download files with curl using a command similar to: 
:: download https://curl.se/windows/dl-7.85.0_2/curl-7.85.0_2-win64-mingw.zip

:: Assumes this batch file and the compiled CurlDownload.class are in
:: c:\batch , c:\batch is in the path environment variable
:: and you are downloading to c:\download

@echo off
cd c:\batch
java CurlDownload %1
tempcurl.bat