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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-08-22 23:41:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-08-23 00:40:52 +0200 |
| commit | a20da5523e20ace47b3330501b7abab72fd43b8d (patch) | |
| tree | fdbb8f9f8a8a0a396b6ee58d0ff55fb64225f8b3 | |
| parent | 5be48639b199bc8d9f1fe24f26211fa40c20a2fc (diff) | |
curl.1: clarify --limit-rate's effect on both directions
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1414
Reported-by: teo8976
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
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 <speed>" -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 |