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authorJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2020-05-13 14:02:44 -0400
committerJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2020-05-13 18:24:34 -0400
commitf9983a6f9eb5314ad1a788d06929f6763ada6204 (patch)
treeb5cecac5b49ef16ccd5f86ba6a5ab643779dcb69 /docs
parent66b077576313eda129bce9f58fdc894d857cb121 (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
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@@ -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