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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-04-23 08:33:08 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-04-23 13:48:14 +0200
commita39593d2823fd05be609bdd3eac6f1dd005c747f (patch)
tree2fce0cf6d1cd58de7b98eac0b2c2c88b9ff5961d
parentf0819f99ae226c293c0f49ef5e715a44bdad618b (diff)
curl.1: clarify that options and URLs can be mixed
Fixes #2515 Closes #2517
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/page-header8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header b/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header
index ee5af1477..51f45edad 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, 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
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
.SH NAME
curl \- transfer a URL
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B curl [options]
-.I [URL...]
+.B curl [options / URLs]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B curl
is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported
@@ -65,7 +64,8 @@ other:
http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html
You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched
-in a sequential manner in the specified order.
+in a sequential manner in the specified order. You can specify command line
+options and URLs mixed and in any order on the command line.
You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or
letter: