1 Long: config 2 Arg: <file> 3 Help: Read config from a file 4 Short: K 5 --- 6 7 Specify a text file to read curl arguments from. The command line arguments 8 found in the text file will be used as if they were provided on the command 9 line. 10 11 Options and their parameters must be specified on the same line in the file, 12 separated by whitespace, colon, or the equals sign. Long option names can 13 optionally be given in the config file without the initial double dashes and 14 if so, the colon or equals characters can be used as separators. If the option 15 is specified with one or two dashes, there can be no colon or equals character 16 between the option and its parameter. 17 18 If the parameter is to contain whitespace, the parameter must be enclosed 19 within quotes. Within double quotes, the following escape sequences are 20 available: \\\\, \\", \\t, \\n, \\r and \\v. A backslash preceding any other 21 letter is ignored. If the first column of a config line is a '#' character, 22 the rest of the line will be treated as a comment. Only write one option per 23 physical line in the config file. 24 25 Specify the filename to --config as '-' to make curl read the file from stdin. 26 27 Note that to be able to specify a URL in the config file, you need to specify 28 it using the --url option, and not by simply writing the URL on its own 29 line. So, it could look similar to this: 30 31 url = "https://curl.haxx.se/docs/" 32 33 When curl is invoked, it (unless --disable is used) checks for a default 34 config file and uses it if found. The default config file is checked for in 35 the following places in this order: 36 37 1) curl tries to find the "home dir": It first checks for the CURL_HOME and 38 then the HOME environment variables. Failing that, it uses getpwuid() on 39 Unix-like systems (which returns the home dir given the current user in your 40 system). On Windows, it then checks for the APPDATA variable, or as a last 41 resort the '%USERPROFILE%\\Application Data'. 42 43 2) On windows, if there is no _curlrc file in the home dir, it checks for one 44 in the same dir the curl executable is placed. On Unix-like systems, it will 45 simply try to load .curlrc from the determined home dir. 46 47 .nf 48 # --- Example file --- 49 # this is a comment 50 url = "example.com" 51 output = "curlhere.html" 52 user-agent = "superagent/1.0" 53 54 # and fetch another URL too 55 url = "example.com/docs/manpage.html" 56 -O 57 referer = "http://nowhereatall.example.com/" 58 # --- End of example file --- 59 .fi 60 61 This option can be used multiple times to load multiple config files. 62