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by samueloph 711 days ago
As others pointed out, you can do that, you can also set them in .curlrc, or you can write a script if you want to allow for multiple URLs to be downloaded in parallel (not possible with an alias), or now you can just use wcurl :)

Note: wcurl sets a bit more flags than that, it also encodes the whitespaces in the URL and does parallel downloading of multiple URLs.
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tssva 711 days ago
“or now you can just use wcurl :)”

Sadly I can’t since it is dependent upon the util-linux version of getopt which means it fails on bsd and macOS systems. Understandable since it is always available on the specific target the script was written for and it does make life easier.

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samueloph 711 days ago
argh, we are looking into fixing that now.

I knew getopt was linux-specific but I thoughts the only impact was that the long form argument (--opt) would not work. I turns out it doesn't run at all instead.

We should be able to fix this within the next few days, thank you!

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samueloph 708 days ago
> We should be able to fix this within the next few days, thank you!

It's fixed now, should work in non-linux environments.

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