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Subject: curl oddity
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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:39:25 +0100

When using a command line of the form
$ curl -o "file_#1.htm" -x localhost:8000 http://www.sample.com/{first,second}.htm

the result I get is as follows:
$ ls -la *.htm
-rw-r--r--    1 Gary     users        4189 Jan 25 08:39 file_1.htm

and the second file sent to stdout. Neither is what I would
expect given the man page:
  -o/--output <file>
         Write output to <file> instead of stdout. If you are using {} or
         [] to fetch multiple documents, you can use '#'  followed  by  a
         number  in  the <file> specifier. That variable will be replaced
         with the current string for the URL being fetched. Like in:

           curl http://{one,two}.site.com -o "file_#1.txt"

From reading that I expected to have files file_first.htm
and file_second.htm as my results, sitting on the HD. Am I
misreading the man page or is there a bug in there
somewhere? If the latter, can someone compare with curl on
another OS and see whether the results are the same?

$ curl -V
curl 7.10.2 (i686-pc-cygwin) libcurl/7.10.2 OpenSSL/0.9.6h zlib/1.1.4

$ uname
CYGWIN_98-4.10 daisy 1.3.19(0.71/3/2) 2003-01-23 21:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin

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