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| author | Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> | 2013-05-03 23:12:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> | 2013-05-06 14:32:26 +0200 |
| commit | 42e01cff9af12441eb60694af9c0c86817e8f7e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0eadd0f746b14a0e677173df39c45b9c4f235afb | |
| parent | 865d4138a08daff460f116c2494adb9c889f5304 (diff) | |
curl.1: document escape sequences recognized by -E
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index c4cce98d6..d64ce0e33 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -388,7 +388,10 @@ curl the nickname of the certificate to use within the NSS database defined by the environment variable SSL_DIR (or by default /etc/pki/nssdb). If the NSS PEM PKCS#11 module (libnsspem.so) is available then PEM files may be loaded. If you want to use a file from the current directory, please precede -it with "./" prefix, in order to avoid confusion with a nickname. +it with "./" prefix, in order to avoid confusion with a nickname. If the +nickname contains ":", it needs to be preceded by "\\" so that it is not +recognized as password delimiter. If the nickname contains "\\", it needs to +be escaped as "\\\\" so that it is not recognized as an escape character. (iOS and Mac OS X only) If curl is built against Secure Transport, then the certificate string must match the name of a certificate that's in the system or user keychain. The private key corresponding to the certificate, and certificate chain (if any), must also be present in the keychain. |