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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2013-05-28 11:37:29 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2013-05-28 11:37:58 +0200
commitba9a66663a6474574dad633c03a5bb34b8ef3c22 (patch)
tree72f5c1b41df4ea2ba8841445a378197eb6fb41e1
parentac419bf562c4196f819edd124be82da96f81ba95 (diff)
curl.1: clarify that --silent still outputs data
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.17
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index d64ce0e33..7c2c8631e 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, 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
@@ -1277,8 +1277,9 @@ Set this option to zero to not timeout retries. (Added in 7.12.3)
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-s, --silent"
-Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages. Makes
-Curl mute.
+Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages. Makes Curl
+mute. It will still output the data you ask for, potentially even to the
+terminal/stdout unless you redirect it.
.IP "-S, --show-error"
When used with \fI-s\fP it makes curl show an error message if it fails.
.IP "--ssl"