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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header b/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header index b66310aa2..f96ed6596 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ curl \- transfer a URL is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, -SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP). The command is designed to work without user +SMTPS, TELNET or TFTP). The command is designed to work without user interaction. curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that getting many files from the same server will not do multiple connects / handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on files specified on a single command line and cannot be used between separate curl -invokes. +invocations. .SH OUTPUT If not told otherwise, curl writes the received data to stdout. It can be instructed to instead save that data into a local file, using the --output or @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ instructed to instead save that data into a local file, using the --output or command line, it similarly needs multiple options for where to save them. curl does not parse or otherwise "understand" the content it gets or writes as -output. It does no encoding or decoding, unless explicitly asked so with +output. It does no encoding or decoding, unless explicitly asked to with dedicated command line options. .SH PROTOCOLS curl supports numerous protocols, or put in URL terms: schemes. Your @@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), --output or similar. -It is not the same case for FTP upload as that operation does not spit out -any response data to the terminal. +This does not apply to FTP upload as that operation does not spit out any +response data to the terminal. If you prefer a progress "bar" instead of the regular meter, --progress-bar is your friend. You can also disable the progress meter completely with the @@ -196,5 +196,5 @@ In general, all boolean options are enabled with --**option** and yet again disabled with --**no-**option. That is, you use the exact same option name but prefix it with "no-". However, in this list we mostly only list and show the --option version of them. (This concept with --no options was added in -7.19.0. Previously most options were toggled on/off on repeated use of the -same command line option.) +7.19.0. Previously most options were toggled on/off through repeated use of +the same command line option.) |