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authorGisle Vanem <gisle.vanem@gmail.com>2017-12-17 17:26:10 -0500
committerJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2017-12-26 02:01:48 -0500
commit859ac3602159ef3df77ac4cb1ae191b069ff1b5b (patch)
tree80eae8e7fa9d6505c16190422be22c5b8ce324df /docs/cmdline-opts
parentb399b04902c43f479b51b142505700edcfc34271 (diff)
downloadcurl-859ac3602159ef3df77ac4cb1ae191b069ff1b5b.tar.gz
tool_getparam: Support size modifiers for --max-filesize
- Move the size modifier detection code from limit-rate to its own function so that it can also be used with max-filesize. Size modifiers are the suffixes such as G (gigabyte), M (megabyte) etc. For example --max-filesize 1G Ref: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2017-12/0000.html Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2179
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts')
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d2
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d
index 8784a84d3..06c456e3e 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ your transfer not to use your entire bandwidth. To make it slower than it
otherwise would be.
The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended.
-Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or M' makes it
+Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it
megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G.
If you also use the --speed-limit option, that option will take precedence and
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d
index e92ef5837..50d5266e1 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/max-filesize.d
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Specify the maximum size (in bytes) of a file to download. If the file
requested is larger than this value, the transfer will not start and curl will
return with exit code 63.
+A size modifier may be used. For example, Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the
+number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it
+gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. (Added in 7.58.0)
+
\fBNOTE:\fP The file size is not always known prior to download, and for such
files this option has no effect even if the file transfer ends up being larger
than this given limit. This concerns both FTP and HTTP transfers.