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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2012-01-19 13:39:25 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2012-01-19 13:42:56 +0100
commitb2aaf3c2ad23a1b8425930eaad38f76d0e218c71 (patch)
treeac470747e7b52024367ddeb5445d67bacdcf2fe5
parentc41f304c43ea2e019085f95c80bbb7809254124e (diff)
curl.1: improve --stderr wording
As is pointed out in this bug report, there can indeed be situation where --stderr has a point even when the "real" stderr can be redirected. Remove the superfluous and wrong comment. bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3476020
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.15
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 65ba5d48c..e92cf5132 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -1324,8 +1324,7 @@ implementation does not. The option \fI--socks5-gssapi-nec\fP allows the
unprotected exchange of the protection mode negotiation. (Added in 7.19.4).
.IP "--stderr <file>"
Redirect all writes to stderr to the specified file instead. If the file name
-is a plain '-', it is instead written to stdout. This option has no point when
-you're using a shell with decent redirecting capabilities.
+is a plain '-', it is instead written to stdout.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-t, --telnet-option <OPT=val>"