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.\" DO NOT EDIT. Generated by the curl project gen.pl man page generator.
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.TH curl 1 "16 Dec 2016" "Curl 7.52.0" "Curl Manual"
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.SH NAME
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curl \- transfer a URL
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B curl [options / URLs]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B curl
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is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported
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protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP,
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LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP,
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SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP). The command is designed to work without user
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interaction.
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curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user
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authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file transfer
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resume, Metalink, and more. As you will see below, the number of features will
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make your head spin!
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curl is powered by libcurl for all transfer-related features. See
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\fIlibcurl(3)\fP for details.
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.SH URL
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The URL syntax is protocol-dependent. You'll find a detailed description in
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RFC 3986.
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You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing part sets within
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braces and quoting the URL as in:
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"http://site.{one,two,three}.com"
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or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:
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"ftp://ftp.example.com/file[1-100].txt"
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"ftp://ftp.example.com/file[001-100].txt" (with leading zeros)
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"ftp://ftp.example.com/file[a-z].txt"
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Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each
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other:
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"http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html"
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You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched
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in a sequential manner in the specified order. You can specify command line
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options and URLs mixed and in any order on the command line.
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You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or
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letter:
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"http://example.com/file[1-100:10].txt"
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"http://example.com/file[a-z:2].txt"
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When using [] or {} sequences when invoked from a command line prompt, you
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probably have to put the full URL within double quotes to avoid the shell from
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interfering with it. This also goes for other characters treated special, like
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for example '&', '?' and '*'.
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Provide the IPv6 zone index in the URL with an escaped percentage sign and the
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interface name. Like in
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"http://[fe80::3%25eth0]/"
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If you specify URL without protocol:// prefix, curl will attempt to guess what
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protocol you might want. It will then default to HTTP but try other protocols
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based on often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting
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with "ftp." curl will assume you want to speak FTP.
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curl will do its best to use what you pass to it as a URL. It is not trying to
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validate it as a syntactically correct URL by any means but is instead
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\fBvery\fP liberal with what it accepts.
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curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that
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getting many files from the same server will not do multiple connects /
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handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on files
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specified on a single command line and cannot be used between separate curl
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invokes.
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.SH OUTPUT
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If not told otherwise, curl writes the received data to stdout. It can be
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instructed to instead save that data into a local file, using the --output or
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--remote-name options. If curl is given multiple URLs to transfer on the
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command line, it similarly needs multiple options for where to save them.
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curl does not parse or otherwise "understand" the content it gets or writes as
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output. It does no encoding or decoding, unless explicitly asked so with
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dedicated command line options.
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.SH PROTOCOLS
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curl supports numerous protocols, or put in URL terms: schemes. Your
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particular build may not support them all.
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.IP DICT
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Lets you lookup words using online dictionaries.
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.IP FILE
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Read or write local files. curl does not support accessing file:// URL
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remotely, but when running on Microsft Windows using the native UNC approach
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will work.
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.IP FTP(S)
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curl supports the File Transfer Protocol with a lot of tweaks and levers. With
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or without using TLS.
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.IP GOPHER
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Retrieve files.
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.IP HTTP(S)
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curl supports HTTP with numerous options and variations. It can speak HTTP
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version 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 2 and 3 depending on build options and the correct
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command line options.
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.IP IMAP(S)
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Using the mail reading protocol, curl can "download" emails for you. With or
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without using TLS.
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.IP LDAP(S)
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curl can do directory lookups for you, with or without TLS.
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.IP MQTT
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curl supports MQTT version 3. Downloading over MQTT equals "subscribe" to a
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topic while uploading/posting equals "publish" on a topic. MQTT support is
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experimental and TLS based MQTT is not supported (yet).
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.IP POP3(S)
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Downloading from a pop3 server means getting a mail. With or without using
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TLS.
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.IP RTMP(S)
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The Realtime Messaging Protocol is primarily used to server streaming media
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and curl can download it.
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.IP RTSP
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curl supports RTSP 1.0 downloads.
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.IP SCP
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curl supports SSH version 2 scp transfers.
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.IP SFTP
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curl supports SFTP (draft 5) done over SSH version 2.
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.IP SMB(S)
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curl supports SMB version 1 for upload and download.
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.IP SMTP(S)
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Uploading contents to an SMTP server means sending an email. With or without
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TLS.
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.IP TELNET
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Telling curl to fetch a telnet URL starts an interactive session where it
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sends what it reads on stdin and outputs what the server sends it.
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.IP TFTP
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curl can do TFTP downloads and uploads.
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.SH "PROGRESS METER"
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curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the
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amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc. The
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progress meter displays number of bytes and the speeds are in bytes per
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second. The suffixes (k, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024
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bytes. 1M is 1048576 bytes.
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curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so if you invoke curl to
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do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it
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\fIdisables\fP the progress meter as otherwise it would mess up the output
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mixing progress meter and response data.
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If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to
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redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), --output or
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similar.
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It is not the same case for FTP upload as that operation does not spit out
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any response data to the terminal.
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If you prefer a progress "bar" instead of the regular meter, --progress-bar is
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your friend. You can also disable the progress meter completely with the
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--silent option.
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.SH OPTIONS
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Options start with one or two dashes. Many of the options require an
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additional value next to them.
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The short "single-dash" form of the options, -d for example, may be used with
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or without a space between it and its value, although a space is a recommended
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separator. The long "double-dash" form, --data for example, requires a space
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between it and its value.
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Short version options that don't need any additional values can be used
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immediately next to each other, like for example you can specify all the
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options -O, -L and -v at once as -OLv.
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In general, all boolean options are enabled with --\fBoption\fP and yet again
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disabled with --\fBno-\fPoption. That is, you use the exact same option name
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but prefix it with "no-". However, in this list we mostly only list and show
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the --option version of them. (This concept with --no options was added in
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7.19.0. Previously most options were toggled on/off on repeated use of the
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same command line option.)
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