On 05/29/2021 03:20 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2021, at 21:03, Richard Owlett wrote:
The man page is, putting *mildly*, overwhelming. Is there a recommended
introduction to curl.
curl is a big subject. While it's very useful to people who write scripts etc,
on many platforms, the whole manual is aimed at programmers using it.
Inevitably a lot of the information is quite detailed.
If you're looking to learn more about one subject, getting distracted into
learning about curl is possibly not a great idea!
For a quick summary of some basic uses of curl, see
https://curl.se/docs/manual.html
For an longer, but much more educational read, try
https://everything.curl.dev/
which was written by curl's author.
Both suffer from the same "feature" as the man page - abundance of fine
detail. The second appears to to have a very good index so that if you
need a particular detail, it should be quickly found.
After browsing both I did:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=what%20is%20linux%20curl
The first hits each gave few examples, but they hit a wide range of
topics. Thus answering an underlying question, "Why would I want to use
curl?"
