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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2001-08-03 14:06:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2001-08-03 14:06:25 +0000 |
| commit | f24d54a9c4546d845226b4d0dd7700651e0011dd (patch) | |
| tree | a8716c8b3b58056d888536db1f0d97980076c271 | |
| parent | 9478d796a3c4eb366ab7d798bd8c4c693f7c5150 (diff) | |
clarified '-d @filename' with a tiny example
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 03cc2e08d..6b2040616 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" nroff -man curl.1 .\" Written by Daniel Stenberg .\" -.TH curl 1 "8 May 2001" "Curl 7.7.3" "Curl Manual" +.TH curl 1 "3 Aug 2001" "Curl 7.8" "Curl Manual" .SH NAME curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or HTTPS syntax. @@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post chunk that looks like 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. The contents of the file must already be url-encoded. Multiple files can also be -specified. +specified. Posting data from a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with +"--data @foobar". To post data purely binary, you should instead use the --data-binary option. |