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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2020-01-21 08:39:47 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2020-01-21 08:39:48 +0100
commit81e1b1ec2301327189c80645d87fd871eeb37a91 (patch)
treebb34bea6497a4ac75f03e0e33bb160fbe1960982
parent295ea5f641cb3d6ca44bb949e63bd1070835a872 (diff)
data.d: remove "Multiple files can also be specified"
It is superfluous and could even be misleading. Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2020-01/0016.html Reported-by: Mike Norton Closes #4832
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/data.d11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d
index d18312aaa..8b5200d34 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d
@@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating
chunk that looks like \&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.
If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to
-read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from
-stdin. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data from a file named
-\&'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foobar. When --data is told to read
-from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines will be stripped out. If
-you don't want the @ character to have a special interpretation use --data-raw
-instead.
+read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. Posting
+data from a file named \&'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foobar. When
+--data is told to read from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines
+will be stripped out. If you don't want the @ character to have a special
+interpretation use --data-raw instead.