Bugs item #675250, was opened at 2003-01-26 21:16
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Category: documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Summary: bad man page

Initial Comment:
Elbert Wall(elbertdwATradiksDOTnet)
curl 7.7.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.0) libcurl 7.7.2
(OpenSSL 0.9.6b)

I'm very new to using curl and unix. I found what looks
like an error in the documentation. I had a hard time
using [] to specify multiple urls.

The man page doesn't say anything about using quotes
around urls. I think many new users of curl get
tripped up because they expect the man page to be
correct. I had to read several extra web pages to find
the proper information (Wasting CPU cycles!! :0) ).

Thi s is all the man page says:

You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing
       part sets within braces as in:

        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 lead-
       ing zeros)
        ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt
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This is what the FAQ says:
  Because those letters have a special meaning to the
shell, and to be used in a URL specified to curl you
must quote them.

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Received on 2003-01-27