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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/data.d | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d index d18312aaa..8b5200d34 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/data.d @@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating chunk that looks like \&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'. 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. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data from a file named -\&'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foobar. When --data is told to read -from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines will be stripped out. If -you don't want the @ character to have a special interpretation use --data-raw -instead. +read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. Posting +data from a file named \&'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foobar. When +--data is told to read from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines +will be stripped out. If you don't want the @ character to have a special +interpretation use --data-raw instead. |