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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-11-10 22:11:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-11-10 22:11:01 +0000 |
| commit | bd8baed13879d30614065379cca6e2b559b4b0fa (patch) | |
| tree | 17d868ef3c0bf6ee0093e185b26a42f4c5524856 /docs | |
| parent | 00a7dda273af92f0e58d2d7f0f6e56209919de18 (diff) | |
Introducing range stepping to the curl globbing support. Now you can specify
step counter by adding :[num] within the brackets when specifying a range.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index ccc22dd22..688a14b96 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ .\" * $Id$ .\" ************************************************************************** .\" -.TH curl 1 "4 Sep 2005" "Curl 7.14.2" "Curl Manual" +.TH curl 1 "10 Nov 2005" "Curl 7.15.1" "Curl Manual" .SH NAME curl \- transfer a URL .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ several ones next to each other: You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched in a sequential manner in the specified order. +Since curl 7.15.1 you can also specify step counter for the ranges, so that +you can get every Nth number or letter: + + http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt + http://www.letters.com/file[a-z:2].txt + 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 based on often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting |