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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2014-08-22 23:41:46 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2014-08-23 00:40:52 +0200
commita20da5523e20ace47b3330501b7abab72fd43b8d (patch)
treefdbb8f9f8a8a0a396b6ee58d0ff55fb64225f8b3
parent5be48639b199bc8d9f1fe24f26211fa40c20a2fc (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.17
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