1 Long: config 2 Arg: <file> 3 Help: Read config from a file 4 Short: K 5 Category: curl 6 --- 7 8 Specify a text file to read curl arguments from. The command line arguments 9 found in the text file will be used as if they were provided on the command 10 line. 11 12 Options and their parameters must be specified on the same line in the file, 13 separated by whitespace, colon, or the equals sign. Long option names can 14 optionally be given in the config file without the initial double dashes and 15 if so, the colon or equals characters can be used as separators. If the option 16 is specified with one or two dashes, there can be no colon or equals character 17 between the option and its parameter. 18 19 If the parameter contains whitespace (or starts with : or =), the parameter 20 must be enclosed within quotes. Within double quotes, the following escape 21 sequences are available: \\\\, \\", \\t, \\n, \\r and \\v. A backslash 22 preceding any other letter is ignored. 23 24 If the first column of a config line is a '#' character, the rest of the line 25 will be treated as a comment. 26 27 Only write one option per physical line in the config file. 28 29 Specify the filename to --config as '-' to make curl read the file from stdin. 30 31 Note that to be able to specify a URL in the config file, you need to specify 32 it using the --url option, and not by simply writing the URL on its own 33 line. So, it could look similar to this: 34 35 url = "https://curl.se/docs/" 36 37 When curl is invoked, it (unless --disable is used) checks for a default 38 config file and uses it if found. The default config file is checked for in 39 the following places in this order: 40 41 1) Use the CURL_HOME environment variable if set 42 43 2) Use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable if set (Added in 7.73.0) 44 45 3) Use the HOME environment variable if set 46 47 4) Non-windows: use getpwuid to find the home directory 48 49 5) Windows: use APPDATA if set 50 51 6) Windows: use "USERPROFILE\Application Data" if set 52 53 7) On windows, if there is no .curlrc file in the home dir, it checks for one 54 in the same dir the curl executable is placed. On Unix-like systems, it will 55 simply try to load .curlrc from the determined home dir. 56 57 .nf 58 # --- Example file --- 59 # this is a comment 60 url = "example.com" 61 output = "curlhere.html" 62 user-agent = "superagent/1.0" 63 64 # and fetch another URL too 65 url = "example.com/docs/manpage.html" 66 -O 67 referer = "http://nowhereatall.example.com/" 68 # --- End of example file --- 69 .fi 70 71 This option can be used multiple times to load multiple config files. 72