On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Octavio Schroeder wrote:

> Tried downloading a file as follows:
>
> curl www.google.com -o c:\temp\google.html
>
> The output does not get saved in a file called google.html in the C:\temp
> folder but 'c__temp_google.html' in the current working folder.

Ugh, yes this is certainly not intended!

> The advisory indicates that this issue only applies to using the uppercase O
> and J options (and their respective long versions) but it seems to also
> affect the lower-case -o option as well as the --output.

Obviously, yes and I would say that's a rather intrusive and annoying bug.

This is important enough to warrant a patch release asap methinks.

Thanks a lot for pointing this out!

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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