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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index aec3e48f5..2acd7b7e4 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ curl \- transfer a URL .SH DESCRIPTION .B curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported -protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or -FILE). The command is designed to work without user interaction. +protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, +LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP). The +command is designed to work without user interaction. curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file transfer @@ -55,16 +56,16 @@ or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in: ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros) ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt -No nesting of the sequences is supported at the moment, but you can use -several ones next to each other: +Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each +other: http://any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched in a sequential manner in the specified order. -Since curl 7.15.1 you can also specify a step counter for the ranges, so that -you can get every Nth number or letter: +You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or +letter: http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt http://www.letters.com/file[a-z:2].txt @@ -87,8 +88,8 @@ invokes. curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc. -However, since curl displays this data to the terminal by default, if you invoke -curl to do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it +curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so if you invoke curl to +do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it \fIdisables\fP the progress meter as otherwise it would mess up the output mixing progress meter and response data. @@ -300,8 +301,8 @@ away. EPRT and LPRT are extensions to the original FTP protocol, and may not wor on all servers, but they enable more functionality in a better way than the traditional PORT command. -Since curl 7.19.0, \fB--eprt\fP can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again -and \fB--no-eprt\fP is an alias for \fB--disable-eprt\fP. +\fB--eprt\fP can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again and \fB--no-eprt\fP +is an alias for \fB--disable-eprt\fP. Disabling EPRT only changes the active behavior. If you want to switch to passive mode you need to not use \fI-P/--ftp-port\fP or force it with @@ -311,8 +312,8 @@ passive mode you need to not use \fI-P/--ftp-port\fP or force it with transfers. Curl will normally always first attempt to use EPSV before PASV, but with this option, it will not try using EPSV. -Since curl 7.19.0, \fB--epsv\fP can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again -and \fB--no-epsv\fP is an alias for \fB--disable-epsv\fP. +\fB--epsv\fP can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again and \fB--no-epsv\fP +is an alias for \fB--disable-epsv\fP. Disabling EPSV only changes the passive behavior. If you want to switch to active mode you need to use \fI-P/--ftp-port\fP. |