1 Long: config 2 Arg: <file> 3 Help: Read config from a file 4 Short: K 5 Category: curl 6 Example: --config file.txt $URL 7 Added: 4.10 8 --- 9 Specify a text file to read curl arguments from. The command line arguments 10 found in the text file will be used as if they were provided on the command 11 line. 12 13 Options and their parameters must be specified on the same line in the file, 14 separated by whitespace, colon, or the equals sign. Long option names can 15 optionally be given in the config file without the initial double dashes and 16 if so, the colon or equals characters can be used as separators. If the option 17 is specified with one or two dashes, there can be no colon or equals character 18 between the option and its parameter. 19 20 If the parameter contains whitespace (or starts with : or =), the parameter 21 must be enclosed within quotes. Within double quotes, the following escape 22 sequences are available: \\\\, \\", \\t, \\n, \\r and \\v. A backslash 23 preceding any other letter is ignored. 24 25 If the first column of a config line is a '#' character, the rest of the line 26 will be treated as a comment. 27 28 Only write one option per physical line in the config file. 29 30 Specify the filename to --config as '-' to make curl read the file from stdin. 31 32 Note that to be able to specify a URL in the config file, you need to specify 33 it using the --url option, and not by simply writing the URL on its own 34 line. So, it could look similar to this: 35 36 url = "https://curl.se/docs/" 37 38 When curl is invoked, it (unless --disable is used) checks for a default 39 config file and uses it if found, even when this option is used. The default 40 config file is checked for in the following places in this order: 41 42 1) Use the CURL_HOME environment variable if set 43 44 2) Use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable if set (Added in 7.73.0) 45 46 3) Use the HOME environment variable if set 47 48 4) Non-windows: use getpwuid to find the home directory 49 50 5) Windows: use APPDATA if set 51 52 6) Windows: use "USERPROFILE\\Application Data" if set 53 54 7) On windows, if there is no .curlrc file in the home dir, it checks for one 55 in the same dir the curl executable is placed. On Unix-like systems, it will 56 simply try to load .curlrc from the determined home dir. 57 58 .nf 59 # --- Example file --- 60 # this is a comment 61 url = "example.com" 62 output = "curlhere.html" 63 user-agent = "superagent/1.0" 64 65 # and fetch another URL too 66 url = "example.com/docs/manpage.html" 67 -O 68 referer = "http://nowhereatall.example.com/" 69 # --- End of example file --- 70 .fi 71 72 This option can be used multiple times to load multiple config files. 73