Michal Marek's improved .curlrc syntax description

invokes.

.SH "PROGRESS METER"

curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating amount

of transfered data, transfer speeds and estimated time left etc.

of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left etc.

However, since curl displays 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

This option can be used multiple times to add/replace/remove multiple headers.

.IP "--hostpubmd5"

Pass a string containing 32 hexadecimal digits. The string should be the 128

bit MD5 cheksum of the remote host's public key, curl will refuse the

bit MD5 checksum of the remote host's public key, curl will refuse the

connection with the host unless the md5sums match. This option is only for SCP

and SFTP transfers. (Added in 7.17.1)

.IP "--ignore-content-length"

Specify which config file to read curl arguments from. The config file is a

text file in which command line arguments can be written which then will be

used as if they were written on the actual command line. Options and their

parameters must be specified on the same config file line. If the parameter is

to contain white spaces, the parameter must be enclosed within quotes.  If the

parameters must be specified on the same config file line, separated by

white space, colon, the equals sign or any combination thereof (however,

the preferred separator is the equals sign). If the parameter is to contain

white spaces, the parameter must be enclosed within quotes. Within double

quotes, the following escape sequences are available: \\\\, \\", \\t, \\n,

\\r and \\v. A backlash preceding any other letter is  ignored. If the

first column of a config line is a '#' character, the rest of the line will be

treated as a comment. Only write one option per physical line in the config

file.