Colin Watson's man patch as posted to debian bug tracker numer #90281

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.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.

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

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

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"