1<!-- Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. --> 2<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: curl --> 3# GLOBBING 4You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing lists within braces 5or ranges within brackets. We call this "globbing". 6 7Provide a list with three different names like this: 8 9 "http://site.{one,two,three}.com" 10 11Do sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in: 12 13 "ftp://ftp.example.com/file[1-100].txt" 14 15With leading zeroes: 16 17 "ftp://ftp.example.com/file[001-100].txt" 18 19With letters through the alphabet: 20 21 "ftp://ftp.example.com/file[a-z].txt" 22 23Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each 24other: 25 26 "http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html" 27 28You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or 29letter: 30 31 "http://example.com/file[1-100:10].txt" 32 33 "http://example.com/file[a-z:2].txt" 34 35When using [] or {} sequences when invoked from a command line prompt, you 36probably have to put the full URL within double quotes to avoid the shell from 37interfering with it. This also goes for other characters treated special, like 38for example '&', '?' and '*'. 39 40Switch off globbing with --globoff. 41
