From a20da5523e20ace47b3330501b7abab72fd43b8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:41:46 +0200 Subject: curl.1: clarify --limit-rate's effect on both directions Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1414 Reported-by: teo8976 --- docs/curl.1 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/curl.1') diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index c48daa41a..6bb2d1c5f 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -877,9 +877,10 @@ of what your command-line operation does! If this option is used several times, the last given file name will be used. (Added in 7.16.1) .IP "--limit-rate " -Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use. This feature is useful -if you have a limited pipe and you'd like your transfer not to use your entire -bandwidth. +Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use - for both downloads +and uploads. This feature is useful if you have a limited pipe and you'd like +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 -- cgit v1.2.1