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From: Bob Barry <bobb_at_cad.co.za>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:34:51 +0200

FAQ 1.4 states "Curl's output is fine to pipe into another program or redirect to
another file for the next program to interpret. " That's what I'd expect, and it
works nicely on my Gentoo system using cURL 7.15.1. But on two Debian
systems, both running 7.15.1, I can't get curl to use standard output. I removed
the deb package from one of the Debian systems, and built curl from source
with a vanilla ".configure; make; make install", and the result works the same as
the deb package. I've read the configure options, and can't spot one that
should disable standard output. I've read the Gentoo ebuild, and don't see
any patches or unusual options there. The deb systems can write output to
file (-o <file>) but they don't accept "-o -". Can anyone tell me why?

Thanks,

Bob Barry
Received on 2006-02-06