Loading docs/README.curl +16 −7 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -400,17 +400,26 @@ SPEED LIMIT CONFIG FILE Curl automatically tries to read the .curlrc file (or _curlrc file on win32 systems) from the user's home dir on startup. The config file should be made up with normal command line switches. Comments can be used within the file. If the first letter on a line is a '#'-letter the rest of the line is treated as a comment. systems) from the user's home dir on startup. The config file could be made up with normal command line switches, but you can also specify the long options without the dashes to make it more readable. You can separate the options and the parameter with spaces, or with = or :. Comments can be used within the file. If the first letter on a line is a '#'-letter the rest of the line is treated as a comment. If you want the parameter to contain spaces, you must inclose the entire parameter within double quotes ("). Within those quotes, you specify a quote as \". NOTE: You must specify options and their arguments on the same line. Example, set default time out and proxy in a config file: # We want a 30 minute timeout: -m 1800 # ... and we use a proxy for all accesses: -x proxy.our.domain.com:8080 proxy = proxy.our.domain.com:8080 White spaces ARE significant at the end of lines, but all white spaces leading up to the first characters of each line are ignored. Loading @@ -424,14 +433,14 @@ CONFIG FILE without URL by making a config file similar to: # default url to get http://help.with.curl.com/curlhelp.html url = "http://help.with.curl.com/curlhelp.html" You can specify another config file to be read by using the -K/--config flag. If you set config file name to "-" it'll read the config from stdin, which can be handy if you want to hide options from being visible in process tables etc: echo "-u user:passwd" | curl -K - http://that.secret.site.com echo "user = user:passwd" | curl -K - http://that.secret.site.com EXTRA HEADERS Loading Loading
docs/README.curl +16 −7 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -400,17 +400,26 @@ SPEED LIMIT CONFIG FILE Curl automatically tries to read the .curlrc file (or _curlrc file on win32 systems) from the user's home dir on startup. The config file should be made up with normal command line switches. Comments can be used within the file. If the first letter on a line is a '#'-letter the rest of the line is treated as a comment. systems) from the user's home dir on startup. The config file could be made up with normal command line switches, but you can also specify the long options without the dashes to make it more readable. You can separate the options and the parameter with spaces, or with = or :. Comments can be used within the file. If the first letter on a line is a '#'-letter the rest of the line is treated as a comment. If you want the parameter to contain spaces, you must inclose the entire parameter within double quotes ("). Within those quotes, you specify a quote as \". NOTE: You must specify options and their arguments on the same line. Example, set default time out and proxy in a config file: # We want a 30 minute timeout: -m 1800 # ... and we use a proxy for all accesses: -x proxy.our.domain.com:8080 proxy = proxy.our.domain.com:8080 White spaces ARE significant at the end of lines, but all white spaces leading up to the first characters of each line are ignored. Loading @@ -424,14 +433,14 @@ CONFIG FILE without URL by making a config file similar to: # default url to get http://help.with.curl.com/curlhelp.html url = "http://help.with.curl.com/curlhelp.html" You can specify another config file to be read by using the -K/--config flag. If you set config file name to "-" it'll read the config from stdin, which can be handy if you want to hide options from being visible in process tables etc: echo "-u user:passwd" | curl -K - http://that.secret.site.com echo "user = user:passwd" | curl -K - http://that.secret.site.com EXTRA HEADERS Loading