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And remove info about pre 7.73.0 curl.
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bagder committed Dec 15, 2023
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# List options

curl has more than two hundred command-line options and the number of options
keep increasing over time. Chances are the number of options will reach 250
within a few years.
curl has more than two hundred and fifty command-line options and the number
of options keep increasing over time. Chances are the number of options will
reach three hundred in the coming years.

To find out which options you need to perform as certain action, you can get
curl to list them. First, `curl --help` or simply `curl -h` will get you a
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area. Use `curl -h category` to list all existing categories or `curl -h all`
to list *all* available options.

Before curl 7.73.0, the help category system did not exist and then `curl
--help` or simply `curl -h` would simply list all existing options in
alphabetical order with a brief explanation next to each.

The `curl --manual` option outputs the entire man page for curl. That is a
thorough and complete document on how each option works amassing several
thousand lines of documentation. To wade through that is also a tedious work
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