TagDescriptionurlOne or multiple URLs that will be fetched in sequence. Multiple URLs or parts of URLs can be specified by writing part sets within braces as in:
http://site.{one,two,three}.com or get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txtftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros)ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt
-A 'agent string'
--user-agent 'agent string'Specify the User-Agent string to send to the HTTP server. To encode blanks in the string, surround the string with single quote marks. This can also be set with -H, --header option. (HTTP)-b name=data
--cookie name=dataSend the data to the HTTP server as a cookie. It is supposedly the data previously received from the server in a 'Set-Cookie:' line. The data should be in the format 'NAME1=VALUE1; NAME2=VALUE2'.-c filename
--cookie-jar file nameSave cookies to file after a completed operation. Curl writes all cookies previously read from a specified fileas well as all cookies received from remote server(s). If no cookies are known, no file will be written. To write to stdout, set the file name to a single dash, '-'.--compressedRequest a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports (gzip), and save the uncompressed document. If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl will report an error.(HTTP)-d @file
-d 'string'
--data 'string'Send the specified data in an (HTTP) POST request, in the same way that a web browser does. This will pass the data using the content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F, --form.-d, --data is the same as --data-ascii. To post data in pure binary, use --data-binary.To URL-encode the value of a form field you may use --data-urlencode. Multiple date options will be merged together. Thus, using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post that looks like 'name=daniel&skill=lousy'. If the data starts with @, the rest should be a filename containing the data.-F name=@file
-F name=content
--form name=contentEmulate a filled-in form in which a user has pressed the submit button. This will POST data using the Content-Type multipart/form-data according to RFC 2388. This enables uploading of binary files etc. If the data starts with @, the rest should be a filename. To just get the content part from a file, prefix the file name with the symbol <. The difference between @ and < is that @ makes a file get attached in the post as a file upload, while the < makes a text field and gets the contents for that text field from a file.-k
--insecureThis option explicitly allows curl to perform 'insecure' SSL connections and transfers. All SSL connections are attempted in secure mode using the CA certificate bundle installed by default. This makes all connections considered 'insecure' fail unless -k, --insecure is used.(SSL).--limit-rate speedSpecify the maximum transfer rate. This feature is useful if you have a limited pipe and you'd like your transfer not to use your entire bandwidth. The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended. Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes/sec, 'm' or M' megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes/sec. Eg: 200K, 3m, 1G.-m seconds
--max-time seconds-o file
--output fileWrite 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'or use several variables like:
curl http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com -o '#1_#2'
You may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you have. See also --create-dirs option to create the local directories dynamically. Specify '-' to force the output to stdout.
-O
--remote-nameWrite output to a local file named like the remote file we get. (Only the file part of the remote file is used, the path is cut off.) The remote file name to use for saving is extracted from the given URL, nothing else. Consequentially, the file will be saved in the current working directory.-s
--silentSilent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages.--trace-ascii fileEnable a full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing data, including descriptive information, to the given output file. Use '-' as filename to have the output sent to stdout. This option overrides previous uses of -v, --verbose or --trace-ascii. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.-T file
--upload-file fileTransfer the specified local file to the remote URL. PUT If there is no file part in the specified URL, Curl will append the local file name. You must use a trailing / on the last directory to really prove to Curl that there is no file name or curl will think that the last directory name is the remote file name to use. Use the file name '-' to use stdin. You can specify one -T for each URL on the command line. Each -T + URL pair specifies what to upload and to where. curl also supports 'globbing' of the -T argument, meaning that you can upload multiple files to a single URLlike this:
curl -T '{file1,file2}' http://www.uploadtothissite.comor even
curl -T 'img[1-1000].png' ftp://ftp.picturemania.com/upload/
-I
--headFetch the HTTP-header only! (HTTP/FTP/FILE) HTTP-servers feature the command HEAD which this uses to get nothing but the header of a document. When used on an FTP or FILE file, curl displays the file size and last modification time only.-u user:password
--user user:passwordThe username and password to use for server authentication. Overrides -n, --netrc and --netrc-optional. If you just give the user name (without entering a colon) curl will prompt for a password. If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do NTLM authentication, you canforce curl to pick up the username and password from your environment by specifying a single colon with this option: '-u :'. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.-w
--write-out formatDefine extra info to display on stdout after a completed and successful operation. The format is a string that may contain plain text mixed with any number of variables. The format string can be specified as 'string', or to read from a file specify '@filename' to read the format from stdin use '@-'. Various variables may be included in the format and will be substituted by curl (file size, ip address etc see man curl for details). variables are specified as %{variable_name} Output a newline using \n, a carriage return with \r and a tab space with \t.-x host:port
-x [protocol://][user:password@]proxyhost[:port]
--proxy [protocol://][user:password@]proxyhost[:port]Use the specified HTTP proxy. If the port number is not specified, it is assumed at port 1080.-H 'name: value'
--header 'name: value'Add Header when getting a web page. You may specify any number of extra headers.-H 'name:'
--header 'name:'Remove Header, remove an internal header. -L
--locationFollow redirects if the server reports that the requested page has moved (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code)-v
--verboseMake more verbose/talkative. Mostly useful for debugging.
