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curl.1: mention quoting in the URL section

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and separate the example URLs with newlines
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Daniel Stenberg 2014-10-01 08:29:43 +02:00
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@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ braces as in:
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
Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each
@ -68,8 +70,14 @@ 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
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
based on often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting