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Re: Minor documentation error

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 10:25:31 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 30 Apr 2026, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:

(Took this topic back to the list.)

>> See https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21477
>
> If single quotes are always a viable alternative to double quotes (or worse
> only sometimes so - perhaps due to platform/shell idiosyncracies) shouldn't
> there be some sort of quoting overview at the top of the page?

Argument quoting is a shell thing. If single or double quotes work and how
they differ is decided by the shell and it differs slightly between different
implementations. I don't think it is our job to document that in the curl man
page.

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