Commit b744950f authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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curl.1: expand on how multiple uses of -o looks

Suggested-by: Dan Jacobson
Issue: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1097
parent 07b95ea2
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@@ -1239,7 +1239,17 @@ or use several variables like:

  curl http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com -o "#1_#2"

You may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you have.
You may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you have. For
example, if you specify two URLs on the same command line, you can use it like
this:

  curl -o aa example.com -o bb example.net

and the order of the -o options and the URLs doesn't matter, just that the
first -o is for the fir URL and so on, so the above command line can also be
written as

  curl example.com example.net -o aa -o bb

See also the \fI--create-dirs\fP option to create the local directories
dynamically. Specifying the output as '-' (a single dash) will force the