docs: FTP quotes support '*' prefix to ignore errors

By default libcurl stops processing quote commands on failures.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index c2804f385..014269f4f 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -1313,18 +1313,22 @@ Examples with specified ports:
 You disable PORT again and go back to using the passive version by setting
 this option to NULL.
 .IP CURLOPT_QUOTE
-Pass a pointer to a linked list of FTP or SFTP commands to pass to
-the server prior to your FTP request. This will be done before any
-other commands are issued (even before the CWD command for FTP). The
-linked list should be a fully valid list of 'struct curl_slist' structs
-properly filled in with text strings. Use \fIcurl_slist_append(3)\fP
-to append strings (commands) to the list, and clear the entire list
-afterwards with \fIcurl_slist_free_all(3)\fP. Disable this operation
-again by setting a NULL to this option.
-The set of valid FTP commands depends on the server (see RFC959 for a
-list of mandatory commands).
-The valid SFTP commands are: chgrp, chmod, chown, ln, mkdir, pwd,
-rename, rm, rmdir, symlink (see
+Pass a pointer to a linked list of FTP or SFTP commands to pass to the server
+prior to your FTP request. This will be done before any other commands are
+issued (even before the CWD command for FTP). The linked list should be a
+fully valid list of 'struct curl_slist' structs properly filled in with text
+strings. Use \fIcurl_slist_append(3)\fP to append strings (commands) to the
+list, and clear the entire list afterwards with
+\fIcurl_slist_free_all(3)\fP. Disable this operation again by setting a NULL
+to this option. When speaking to a FTP server, prefix the command with an
+asterisk (*) to make libcurl continue even if the command fails as by default
+libcurl will stop at first failure.
+
+The set of valid FTP commands depends on the server (see RFC959 for a list of
+mandatory commands).
+
+The valid SFTP commands are: chgrp, chmod, chown, ln, mkdir, pwd, rename, rm,
+rmdir, symlink (see
 .BR curl (1))
 (SFTP support added in 7.16.3)
 .IP CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE