On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 05:19:32PM -0500, frank ernest wrote:
> If I want to download a file with this name:
>
> http://example.com/file with {strange} (Name).txt
>
> How do I do it?
> Should I encode the spaces and brackets and braces?
> If you wanted to operate on o file in bash you would just quote it.

curl does its own braces expansion as well, so quoting for bash isn't enough.
You could URL-encode the name (e.g.
http://example.com/file%20with%20%7Bstrange%7D%20%28Name%29.txt) or use curl's
-g parameter to disable its own globbing. In any case, you'd have to URL-quote
the spaces since those are never allowed in a URL.

>>> Dan
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Received on 2014-01-14