I don't think the choice of the char is an issue. Even in cmd, as soon as you use " " the cmd will not interpret <.
But I am not a cmd expert, I only use Powershell if I'm not on Linux anyway. So please correct me if I'm wrong. On Wed, 22 Apr 2026, 19:45 Paul Gilmartin via curl-users, < [email protected]> wrote: > On 4/22/26 09:44, Jeremy Nicoll via curl-users wrote: > >>> curl -T 'file{<glob1>1,2,3}'https://upload.example/{<glob2>this,that} > -o > >>> 'response-#<glob1>-#<glob2>' > >> I like it a lot. > > In the Windows cmd.exe terminal one has to escape the angle brackets > (with > > '^' chars) to prevent them from being treated as redirection indicators > so > > some other characters would be better. > There aren't enough characters. Consider: > 585 $ touch 'foo <bar>' 'foo > bar' > 586 $ ls foo* > 'foo'$'\n''bar' 'foo <bar>' > 587 $ > > -- > gil > > -- > Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-users > Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html >
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