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| author | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2020-05-13 14:02:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com> | 2020-05-13 18:24:34 -0400 |
| commit | f9983a6f9eb5314ad1a788d06929f6763ada6204 (patch) | |
| tree | b5cecac5b49ef16ccd5f86ba6a5ab643779dcb69 | |
| parent | 66b077576313eda129bce9f58fdc894d857cb121 (diff) | |
curl.1: Quote globbed URLs
- Quote the globbing example URLs that contain characters [] {} since
otherwise they may be interpreted as shell metacharacters.
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5388
Reported-by: John Simpson
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/5394
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/page-header | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header b/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header index 209159bdc..c38698c6b 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header @@ -53,16 +53,16 @@ braces and quoting the URL as in: or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in: - ftp://ftp.example.com/file[1-100].txt + "ftp://ftp.example.com/file[1-100].txt" - ftp://ftp.example.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros) + "ftp://ftp.example.com/file[001-100].txt" (with leading zeros) - ftp://ftp.example.com/file[a-z].txt + "ftp://ftp.example.com/file[a-z].txt" Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each other: - http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html + "http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html" You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched in a sequential manner in the specified order. You can specify command line @@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ options and URLs mixed and in any order on the command line. You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or letter: - http://example.com/file[1-100:10].txt + "http://example.com/file[1-100:10].txt" - http://example.com/file[a-z:2].txt + "http://example.com/file[a-z:2].txt" When using [] or {} sequences when invoked from a command line prompt, you probably have to put the full URL within double quotes to avoid the shell from @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ for example '&', '?' and '*'. Provide the IPv6 zone index in the URL with an escaped percentage sign and the interface name. Like in - http://[fe80::3%25eth0]/ + "http://[fe80::3%25eth0]/" If you specify URL without protocol:// prefix, curl will attempt to guess what protocol you might want. It will then default to HTTP but try other protocols |