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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index b28b0495c..c650c9976 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" nroff -man curl.1 .\" Written by Daniel Stenberg .\" -.TH curl 1 "15 March 2001" "Curl 7.7" "Curl Manual" +.TH curl 1 "24 March 2001" "Curl 7.7" "Curl Manual" .SH NAME curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or HTTPS syntax. @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F. If more than one -d/--data option is used on the same command line, the data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating &-letter. Thus, using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post chunk that looks like -'name=daniel&skill=lousy'. +\&'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. The @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ get attached in the post as a file upload, while the < makes a text field and just get the contents for that text field from a file. Example, to send your password file to the server, where -'password' is the name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be the +\&'password' is the name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be the input: .B curl @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ directory. A quick and very simple example of how to setup a .I .netrc to allow curl to ftp to the machine host.domain.com with user name -'myself' and password 'secret' should look similar to: +\&'myself' and password 'secret' should look similar to: .B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret" |