. Systems often "escape" special characters like colons and slashes to prevent them from being misinterpreted as command code, resulting in these hexadecimal strings. command line
That seems to represent a URI scheme like curl-url-file:/// (perhaps a custom or pseudo-protocol for some tool or script). curl-url-file-3A-2F-2F-2F
If your path has spaces or special characters (like %2F for / ), make sure to wrap the URL in double quotes to avoid "bad/illegal format" errors. If your path has spaces or special characters
The string curl-url-file-3A-2F-2F-2F is a URL-encoded or slightly mangled representation of a command trying to access a file scheme In this context, the code 3A-2F-2F-2F translates to: : The hexadecimal value for a colon ( : The hexadecimal value for a forward slash ( When decoded, file-3A-2F-2F-2F curl-url-file-3A-2F-2F-2F
If you need a to include in your content:
If downloading a file to a specific local name, use the -o or -O flags to explicitly define the output destination.