Commit bfeae0b5 authored by Dan Fandrich's avatar Dan Fandrich
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Update docs now that SFTP supports file ranges.

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docs/curl.1

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random data. The data is used to seed the random engine for SSL connections.

See also the \fI--egd-file\fP option.

.IP "-r/--range <range>"

(HTTP/FTP/FILE) Retrieve a byte range (i.e a partial document) from a

HTTP/1.1 or FTP server or a local FILE. Ranges can be specified in a number of

ways.

(HTTP/FTP/SFTP/FILE) Retrieve a byte range (i.e a partial document) from a

HTTP/1.1, FTP or SFTP server or a local FILE. Ranges can be specified

in a number of ways.

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enabled, so that when you attempt to get a range, you'll instead get the whole

document.



FTP range downloads only support the simple 'start-stop' syntax (optionally

with one of the numbers omitted). It depends on the non-RFC command SIZE.

FTP and SFTP range downloads only support the simple 'start-stop' syntax

(optionally with one of the numbers omitted). FTP use depends on the extended

FTP command SIZE.



If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

.IP "--raw"

src/main.c

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    "    --pubkey <key>  Public key file name (SSH)",

    " -Q/--quote <cmd>   Send command(s) to server before file transfer (F/SFTP)",

    "    --random-file <file> File for reading random data from (SSL)",

    " -r/--range <range> Retrieve a byte range from a HTTP/1.1 or FTP server",

    " -r/--range <range> Retrieve only the bytes within a range",

    "    --raw           Pass HTTP \"raw\", without any transfer decoding (H)",

    " -e/--referer       Referer URL (H)",

    " -O/--remote-name   Write output to a file named as the remote file",