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+Long: output
+Arg: <file>
+Short: o
+Help: Write to file instead of stdout
+See-also: remote-name remote-name-all remote-header-name
+---
+Write output to <file> instead of stdout. If you are using {} or [] to fetch
+multiple documents, you can use '#' followed by a number in the <file>
+specifier. That variable will be replaced with the current string for the URL
+being fetched. Like in:
+
+ curl http://{one,two}.example.com -o "file_#1.txt"
+
+or use several variables like:
+
+ curl http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com -o "#1_#2"
+
+You may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you have. For
+example, if you specify two URLs on the same command line, you can use it like
+this:
+
+ curl -o aa example.com -o bb example.net
+
+and the order of the -o options and the URLs doesn't matter, just that the
+first -o is for the first URL and so on, so the above command line can also be
+written as
+
+ curl example.com example.net -o aa -o bb
+
+See also the --create-dirs option to create the local directories
+dynamically. Specifying the output as '-' (a single dash) will force the
+output to be done to stdout.