Guenter schrieb: > Hi, > I just faced again a usual stupid user error where I get a binary > content displayed instead of stored .... > usually this happens to me when I first check for a directory listing to > see what files are available, and then just append the filename without > adding -O, f.e.: > curl ftp://server.in.the.wild/directory/ > <received directory listing> > curl ftp://server.in.the.wild/directory/myfile.bin > > and content gets displayed to stdout .... > I know, very stupid mistake, but I cant believe that I am the only one > to whom this frequently happens .... > I've not yet checked source if this might be easy to implement, but just > thought that we could at least if we get a header 'octet stream' which > clearly identifies binary content automatically imply -O so the content > gets stored to a file instead of displayed to stdout; or am I missing > something? Is this a bad idea? ok, bad sample above since for ftp we can probably dont do such since we get no headers at all IIRC, but I was more thinking of http when I wrote this ...
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