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Re: Reference upload glob pieces in output filename

From: Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:45:38 -0600

On 4/22/26 09:44, Jeremy Nicoll via curl-users wrote:
>>> curl -T 'file{<glob1>1,2,3}'https://upload.example/{<glob2>this,that} -o
>>> 'response-#<glob1>-#<glob2>'
>> I like it a lot.
> In the Windows cmd.exe terminal one has to escape the angle brackets (with
> '^' chars) to prevent them from being treated as redirection indicators so
> some other characters would be better.
There aren't enough characters.  Consider:
585 $ touch  'foo <bar>' 'foo
bar'
586 $ ls foo*
'foo'$'\n''bar'  'foo <bar>'
587 $

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Received on 2026-04-22