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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-10-30 09:08:16 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-10-30 09:08:16 +0000
commitfb26b2bd98eb4fb29dc644fdcc74da1ec60c3708 (patch)
tree538fbde3102ff7b72e38e1402bb7a04bc1db5989 /docs
parent5554f1ccba826ef54d99fe2fa9ef1a77ae12b441 (diff)
curl --head now reports info "headers" on file:// URLs as well
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-rw-r--r--docs/curl.15
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 2a0cbac76..e4e8efaf1 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -367,10 +367,11 @@ name, IP address or host name. An example could look like:
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-I/--head"
-(HTTP/FTP)
+(HTTP/FTP/FILE)
Fetch the HTTP-header only! HTTP-servers feature the command HEAD
which this uses to get nothing but the header of a document. When used
-on a FTP file, curl displays the file size only.
+on a FTP or FILE file, curl displays the file size and last modification
+time only.
If this option is used twice, the second will again disable header only.
.IP "-j/--junk-session-cookies"