Introducing range stepping to the curl globbing support. Now you can specify

step counter by adding :[num] within the brackets when specifying a range.
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Daniel Stenberg 2005-11-10 22:11:01 +00:00
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.\" * $Id$
.\" **************************************************************************
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.TH curl 1 "4 Sep 2005" "Curl 7.14.2" "Curl Manual"
.TH curl 1 "10 Nov 2005" "Curl 7.15.1" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- transfer a URL
.SH SYNOPSIS
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You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched
in a sequential manner in the specified order.
Since curl 7.15.1 you can also specify step counter for the ranges, so that
you can get every Nth number or letter:
http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt
http://www.letters.com/file[a-z:2].txt
If you specify URL without protocol:// prefix, curl will attempt to guess what
protocol you might want. It will then default to HTTP but try other protocols
based on often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting