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As mentioned above, curl supports hundreds of command-line options and it also supports an unlimited number of URLs. If your shell or command-line system supports it, there is really no limit to how long a command line you can pass to curl.
curl will parse the entire command line first, apply the wishes from the command-line options used, and then go over the URLs one by one (in a left to right order) to perform the operations.
For some options (for example -o or -O that tell curl where to store the transfer), you may want to specify one option for each URL on the command line.
curl will return an exit code for its operation on the last URL used. If you instead rather want curl to exit with an error on the first URL in the set that fails, use the --fail-early option.
One output for each given URL
If you use a command-line with two URLs, you must tell curl how to handle both of them. The -o and -O options instruct curl how to save the output for one URL of the URLs, so you might want to have as many of those options as you have URLs on the command line.
If you have more URLs than output options on the command line, the URL content without corresponding output instructions will then instead be sent to stdout.
Using the --remote-name-all flag will automatically make curl act as if -O was used for all given URLs that do not have any output option.
Separate options per URL
In previous sections we described how curl always parses all options in the whole command line and applies those to all the URLs that it transfers.
That was a simplification: curl also offers an option (-:, --next) that inserts a boundary between a set of options and URLs for which it will apply the options. When the command-line parser finds a --next option, it applies the following options to the next set of URLs. The --next option thus works as a divider between a set of options and URLs. You can use as many --next options as you please.
As an example, we do an HTTP GET to a URL and follow redirects, we then make a second HTTP POST to a different URL and we round it up with a HEAD request to a third URL. All in a single command line:
curl --location http://example.com/1 --next
  --data sendthis http://example.com/2 --next
  --head http://example.com/3
Trying something like that without the --next options on the command line would generate an illegal command line since curl would attempt to combine both a POST and a HEAD:
Warning: You can only select one HTTP request method! You asked for both
Warning: POST (-d, --data) and HEAD (-I, --head).
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One output for each given URL
Separate options per URL