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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2002-05-07 23:36:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2002-05-07 23:36:53 +0000 |
| commit | 20d9c1b30d305adf459a6bb496e410a8ad7c8169 (patch) | |
| tree | fb181509d1362121e1fd7671079beaea938555ab | |
| parent | bbe10cb0cb45eae6e737523b215ecdf43d385765 (diff) | |
Patrick Smith's contributed docs improvements for when NLST is used by
curl...
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 5fa130f07..01b89fb50 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -329,6 +329,10 @@ Especially useful if you want to machine-parse the contents of an FTP directory since the normal directory view doesn't use a standard look or format. +This option causes an FTP NLST command to be sent. Some FTP servers +list only files in their response to NLST; they do not include +subdirectories and symbolic links. + If this option is used twice, the second will again disable list only. .IP "-L/--location" (HTTP/HTTPS) If the server reports that the requested page has a different diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index c1c7c636e..343b4592e 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ will imply this option. A non-zero parameter tells the library to just list the names of an ftp directory, instead of doing a full directory listing that would include file sizes, dates etc. + +This causes an FTP NLST command to be sent. Beware that some FTP servers +list only files in their response to NLST; they do not include +subdirectories and symbolic links. .TP .B CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND A non-zero parameter tells the library to append to the remote file instead of |