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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 8f785705e..e52a7e4dd 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -48,18 +48,20 @@ RFC 3986. You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing part sets within braces as in: - http://site.{one,two,three}.com + http://site.{one,two,three}.com or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in: - ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt - ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros) - ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt + ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt + + ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros) + + ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each other: - http://any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html + http://any.org/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. @@ -67,8 +69,14 @@ in a sequential manner in the specified order. You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or letter: - http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt - http://www.letters.com/file[a-z:2].txt + http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt + + http://www.letters.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 +interfering with it. This also goes for other characters treated special, like +for example '&', '?' and '*'. 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 |