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HTTP servers have the option to provide a header named Content-Disposition: in responses. That header may contain a suggested file name for the contents delivered, and curl can be told to use that hint to name its local file. The -J / --remote-header-name enables this. If you also use the -O option, it makes curl use the file name from the URL by default and only if there is actually a valid Content-Disposition header available, it switches to saving using that name.
-J has some problems and risks associated with it that users need to be aware of:
1.It will only use the rightmost part of the suggested file name, so any path or directories the server suggests will be stripped out.
2.Since the file name is entirely selected by the server, curl will, of course, overwrite any preexisting local file in your current directory if the server happens to provide such a file name.
3.File name encoding and character sets issues. curl does not decode the name in any way, so you may end up with a URL-encoded file name where a browser would otherwise decode it to something more readable using a sensible character set.

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