Follow-up to 40c264db61 after discussions on IRC.
The new style is
name[0-99]=contents
and
name[0-99]@filename
A) This does not cause the same problems with old curl versions trying
the new syntax as this way will cause old curls just fail with syntax
error and not risk using the wrong file.
B) Adds the same byte range support for "normal" assigns, which the
previous syntax did not. Thus lets a user get a partial content of a
variable etc.
Added test 790 and 791 to verify non-file assigns with ranges.
Closes#15862
Allowing --variable read a portion of provided files, makes curl work on
partial files for any options that accepts strings. Like --data and others.
The byte offset is provided within brackets, with a semicolon separator
like: --variable name@file;[100-200]"
Inspired by #14479
Assisted-by: Manuel Einfalt
Test 784 - 789. Documentation update provided.
Closes#15739
- make sure angle brackets are escaped
- remove a lot of superfluous double quotes
- replace several double quotes with backticks
To make nicer-looking markdown.
Closes#12884
- 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
