Re: make --url support a file with URLs

Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:11:10 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/27/25 05:54, Daniel Stenberg via curl-users wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Over the years, people have requested an easier way to provide a list of URLs to curl and have it download them all.
> 
> With my new PR [*], you can write "curl --url @file" and curl will download all the URLs in the provided file as if -O was used for each one of them. It can also get the list from stdin if you do "--url @-" in style with how other curl options work.
> 
> If you add -Z, it will do them in parallel.
> 
> Thoughts? What did I forget?
> 
> [*] = https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16099
> 
I'm watching a thread on another list where the originator
(Cc: recipient) supports a number of mirrors of one site,
<https://cbttape.org/>.  No secondary servers -- end users
access the mirrors via filesystems.

Will the URL list support individual --time-cond or --ETag
values for selective update of outdated packages?

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Thanks,
gil

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