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BONUS — Magic cURL Feature (Changelog Interviews)

BONUS — Magic cURL Feature (Changelog Interviews)

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April 30, 20152m 20sbonus

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This is a bonus clip from the after call with Daniel Stenberg for episode #153. Daniel shared the details of a “magic feature” in cURL that’s been there for over 6 years. It’s a feature he feels most people don’t know exists.

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To start using this “magic feature”, create a .curlrc dotfile in your root with the following settings to set the -O flag by default on all URLs fetched using cURL.

# Default to -O
--remote-name-all

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