[macgyvr64]

How to you retrieve multiple numerical files using curl? Even one of the examples in the man page doesn't work for me...

curl http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com -o "#1_#2"
curl: No match.

I realize the hosts don't exist, but that's besides the point.

Again...but without multiple hosts...

curl ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[1-5].txt -o "file_#1.txt"
curl: No match.

Am I doing something wrong?

[Wevah]

The problem is that the shell interprets [ and ] (and maybe { and }) before cURL can even get to them. The workaround is to quote the URL:

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

[macgyvr64]

Excellent! Thank you

[cutterjohn]

...you SHOULD also be able to escape the interpreted character by adding a backslash, \, in front of them:
curl http://\{site,host\}.host\[1-5\].com -o "#1_#2"

ls Temporary\ Folder

etc.

Should work pretty much anywhere those characters are interpreted by a program be it a shell, editor, etc. (Of course it also depends on how the program(s) interpret arguments, but most should work with this technique, ow you have to resort to creative quoting.)

[macgyvr64]

Originally posted by cutterjohn:
Should work pretty much anywhere those characters are interpreted by a program be it a shell, editor, etc. (Of course it also depends on how the program(s) interpret arguments, but most should work with this technique, ow you have to resort to creative quoting.)

Makes sense... I'll keep that in mind.