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| -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 cee54e017..c92c5e2e7 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -286,7 +286,8 @@ 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. Posting data from a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with -\fI--data @foobar\fP. +\fI--data\fP @filename. When --data is told to read from a file like that, +carriage returns and newlines will be stripped out. .IP "-D, --dump-header <file>" Write the protocol headers to the specified file. @@ -308,7 +309,7 @@ whatsoever. If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data is posted in a similar manner as \fI--data-ascii\fP does, except that newlines -are preserved and conversions are never done. +and carriage returns are preserved and conversions are never done. If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data as described in \fI-d, --data\fP. |