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authorJosh Soref <2119212+jsoref@users.noreply.github.com>2021-07-18 21:51:43 -0400
committerJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2021-07-20 02:12:32 -0400
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treef3f7e5582ee7d02410c3ba439e84f2a2e9366b91 /docs/cmdline-opts
parent26ba98807f9fcdc6eb0b7a3c6b6e28e05cb854f2 (diff)
downloadcurl-95434681bfb88b0458b229e280cd55310b3eef69.tar.gz
docs/cmdline: fix grammar and typos
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7432 Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7436 Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7438 Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7440 Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7445
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-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/globoff.d6
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/http3.d2
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/libcurl.d2
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/list-only.d8
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/login-options.d8
5 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/globoff.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/globoff.d
index 4b5f30de9..1db0fa264 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/globoff.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/globoff.d
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ Help: Disable URL sequences and ranges using {} and []
Category: curl
---
This option switches off the "URL globbing parser". When you set this option,
-you can specify URLs that contain the letters {}[] without having them being
-interpreted by curl itself. Note that these letters are not normal legal URL
-contents but they should be encoded according to the URI standard.
+you can specify URLs that contain the letters {}[] without having curl itself
+interpret them. Note that these letters are not normal legal URL contents but
+they should be encoded according to the URI standard.
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/http3.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/http3.d
index 478b662aa..8e3c30161 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/http3.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/http3.d
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ WARNING: this option is experimental. Do not use in production.
Tells curl to use HTTP version 3 directly to the host and port number used in
the URL. A normal HTTP/3 transaction will be done to a host and then get
-redirected via Alt-SVc, but this option allows a user to circumvent that when
+redirected via Alt-Svc, but this option allows a user to circumvent that when
you know that the target speaks HTTP/3 on the given host and port.
This option will make curl fail if a QUIC connection cannot be established, it
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/libcurl.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/libcurl.d
index eb9850c68..60921f5f9 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/libcurl.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/libcurl.d
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Help: Dump libcurl equivalent code of this command line
Added: 7.16.1
Category: curl
---
-Append this option to any ordinary curl command line, and you will get a
+Append this option to any ordinary curl command line, and you will get
libcurl-using C source code written to the file that does the equivalent
of what your command-line operation does!
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/list-only.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/list-only.d
index c69885801..ac3990692 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/list-only.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/list-only.d
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Category: ftp pop3
When listing an FTP directory, this switch forces a name-only view. This is
especially useful if the user wants to machine-parse the contents of an FTP
directory since the normal directory view doesn't use a standard look or
-format. When used like this, the option causes a NLST command to be sent to
+format. When used like this, the option causes an NLST command to be sent to
the server instead of LIST.
Note: Some FTP servers list only files in their response to NLST; they do not
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ include sub-directories and symbolic links.
(POP3)
When retrieving a specific email from POP3, this switch forces a LIST command
to be performed instead of RETR. This is particularly useful if the user wants
-to see if a specific message id exists on the server and what size it is.
+to see if a specific message-id exists on the server and what size it is.
-Note: When combined with --request, this option can be used to send an UIDL
+Note: When combined with --request, this option can be used to send a UIDL
command instead, so the user may use the email's unique identifier rather than
-it's message id to make the request.
+its message-id to make the request.
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/login-options.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/login-options.d
index 887d5d517..b12246885 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/login-options.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/login-options.d
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ Category: imap pop3 smtp auth
---
Specify the login options to use during server authentication.
-You can use the login options to specify protocol specific options that may
-be used during authentication. At present only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support
-login options. For more information about the login options please see
-RFC 2384, RFC 5092 and IETF draft draft-earhart-url-smtp-00.txt
+You can use login options to specify protocol specific options that may be
+used during authentication. At present only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support
+login options. For more information about login options please see RFC
+2384, RFC 5092 and IETF draft draft-earhart-url-smtp-00.txt
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.