| <!-- Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al. --> | |
| <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: curl --> | |
| # GLOBBING | |
| You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing lists within braces | |
| or ranges within brackets. We call this "globbing". | |
| Provide a list with three different names like this: | |
| "http://site.{one,two,three}.com" | |
| Do sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in: | |
| "ftp://ftp.example.com/file[1-100].txt" | |
| With leading zeroes: | |
| "ftp://ftp.example.com/file[001-100].txt" | |
| With letters through the alphabet: | |
| "ftp://ftp.example.com/file[a-z].txt" | |
| Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each | |
| other: | |
| "http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html" | |
| You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or | |
| letter: | |
| "http://example.com/file[1-100:10].txt" | |
| "http://example.com/file[a-z:2].txt" | |
| When using [] or {} sequences when invoked from a command line prompt, you | |
| probably have to put the full URL within double quotes to avoid the shell from | |
| interfering with it. This also goes for other characters treated special, like | |
| for example '&', '?' and '*'. | |
| Switch off globbing with --globoff. | |