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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from your environment by specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :".
On systems where it works, curl will hide the given option argument from
process listings. This is not enough to protect credentials from possibly
getting seen by other users on the same system as they will still be visible
-for a brief moment before cleared. Such sensitive data should be retrieved
-from a file instead or similar and never used in clear text in a command line.
+for a moment before cleared. Such sensitive data should be retrieved from a
+file instead or similar and never used in clear text in a command line.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.