Commit e8404adc authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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docs/page-header: mention how to disable the progress meter

curl.1 is regenerated

Fixes #1190
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.\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
.\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -111,14 +111,15 @@ do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it
mixing progress meter and response data.

If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to
redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), -o [file] or
redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), --output or
similar.

It is not the same case for FTP upload as that operation does not spit out
any response data to the terminal.

If you prefer a progress "bar" instead of the regular meter, --progress-bar is
your friend.
your friend. You can also disable the progress meter completely with the
--silent option.
.SH OPTIONS
Options start with one or two dashes. Many of the options require an
additional value next to them.
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.\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
.\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -111,14 +111,15 @@ do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it
mixing progress meter and response data.

If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to
redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), -o [file] or
redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), \fI-o, --output\fP or
similar.

It is not the same case for FTP upload as that operation does not spit out
any response data to the terminal.

If you prefer a progress "bar" instead of the regular meter, \fI-#, --progress-bar\fP is
your friend.
your friend. You can also disable the progress meter completely with the
\fI-s, --silent\fP option.
.SH OPTIONS
Options start with one or two dashes. Many of the options require an
additional value next to them.
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SSL connect error. The SSL handshaking failed.
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FTP bad download resume. Couldn't continue an earlier aborted download.
Bad download resume. Couldn't continue an earlier aborted download.
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FILE couldn't read file. Failed to open the file. Permissions?
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