Re: supporting --longopt=value
Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Jul 2025 07:16:12 -0600
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On 7/1/25 03:12, Daniel Stenberg via curl-users wrote:
>
> Many other command line tools instead uses the equals-sign-approach,
> where the argument is instead specified immediately next to the flag
> like this:
>
> curl --user-agent=curl-2000 https://example.com/
>
> I am now proposing a PR for curl that makes it add support for the
> latter syntax in addition to the previous, which then perhaps makes curl
> a bit more aligned with the rest of the world: https://github.com/curl/
> curl/pull/17789
> ...
Does this introduce any incompatibility? For example, would i
change the behavior of:
curl --output =x https://example.com
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gil
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