Unverified Commit a39593d2 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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curl.1: clarify that options and URLs can be mixed

Fixes #2515
Closes #2517
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.\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
.\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
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.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
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.SH NAME
curl \- transfer a URL
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B curl [options]
.I [URL...]
.B curl [options / URLs]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B curl
is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported
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  http://example.com/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.
in a sequential manner in the specified order. You can specify command line
options and URLs mixed and in any order on the command line.

You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or
letter: