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- switch all invidual files documenting command line options into .md, as the documentation is now markdown-looking. - made the parser treat 4-space indents as quotes - switch to building the curl.1 manpage using the "mainpage.idx" file, which lists the files to include to generate it, instead of using the previous page-footer/headers. Also, those files are now also .md ones, using the same format. I gave them underscore prefixes to make them sort separately: _NAME.md, _SYNOPSIS.md, _DESCRIPTION.md, _URL.md, _GLOBBING.md, _VARIABLES.md, _OUTPUT.md, _PROTOCOLS.md, _PROGRESS.md, _VERSION.md, _OPTIONS.md, _FILES.md, _ENVIRONMENT.md, _PROXYPREFIX.md, _EXITCODES.md, _BUGS.md, _AUTHORS.md, _WWW.md, _SEEALSO.md - updated test cases accordingly Closes #12751
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| Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. | curl | variable | <[%]name=text/@file> | Set variable | curl | 8.3.0 | append |
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--variable
Set a variable with "name=content" or "name@file" (where "file" can be stdin if set to a single dash (-)). The name is a case sensitive identifier that must consist of no other letters than a-z, A-Z, 0-9 or underscore. The specified content is then associated with this identifier.
Setting the same variable name again overwrites the old contents with the new.
The contents of a variable can be referenced in a later command line option when that option name is prefixed with "--expand-", and the name is used as "{{name}}" (without the quotes).
--variable can import environment variables into the name space. Opt to either require the environment variable to be set or provide a default value for the variable in case it is not already set.
--variable %name imports the variable called 'name' but exits with an error if that environment variable is not already set. To provide a default value if the environment variable is not set, use --variable %name=content or --variable %name@content. Note that on some systems - but not all - environment variables are case insensitive.
When expanding variables, curl supports a set of functions that can make the variable contents more convenient to use. You apply a function to a variable expansion by adding a colon and then list the desired functions in a comma-separated list that is evaluated in a left-to-right order. Variable content holding null bytes that are not encoded when expanded, causes an error.
Available functions:
trim
removes all leading and trailing white space.
json
outputs the content using JSON string quoting rules.
url
shows the content URL (percent) encoded.
b64
expands the variable base64 encoded