On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Ramesh Dharan wrote:

> I’m curious if anyone has ever proposed an option to make curl behave
> similar to less with respect to binary data; i.e. when writing binary data
> to a TTY, first confirm with a prompt:
>
> $ curl http://example.com/somelargebinary.gz
> Output may be binary data. Print anyway?

No, I've not seen anyone suggest such an idea but I have to admit it sounds
rather attractive. Do you have any particular insights in how less or other
tools do the detection?

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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Received on 2014-02-25