thanks.

Brian Moon
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dealnews.com, Inc.
Makers of dealnews & dealmac
http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se>
To: <curl_at_contactor.se>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: globbing error

> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Brian Moon wrote:
>
> > I am using the command line tool to pull several urls down at one time
and
> > having trouble getting the files saved to correct names. According to
the
> > docs this:
> >
> > # curl http://images.dealnews.com/arrow_{down,up}.gif --output "#1.gif"
> >
> > should yield two files named down.gif and up.gif. Instead I get the
> > first file output to 1.gif and the other output to the screen.
>
> This confused me at first too. Then I tried adding single-quotes around
the
> URL, and it worked like we want it to:
>
> # curl 'http://images.dealnews.com/arrow_{down,up}.gif' --output "#1.gif"
>
> Obviously, without the quotes, the shell itself splits that URL into two
> different URLs before they're passed to curl and this of course disables
the
> globbing!
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
>
>
>
Received on 2001-09-24