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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-01-07 20:21:57 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-01-07 20:22:20 +0100
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docs/page-header: mention how to disable the progress meter
curl.1 is regenerated Fixes #1190
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.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, 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
@@ -111,14 +111,15 @@ do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it
mixing progress meter and response data.
If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to
-redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), -o [file] or
+redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), --output or
similar.
It is not the same case for FTP upload as that operation does not spit out
any response data to the terminal.
If you prefer a progress "bar" instead of the regular meter, --progress-bar is
-your friend.
+your friend. You can also disable the progress meter completely with the
+--silent option.
.SH OPTIONS
Options start with one or two dashes. Many of the options require an
additional value next to them.