From dc1df8df5e24f99bc6399877a2e22592bf581268 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:23:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] cmdline/listopts.md: update the numbers And remove info about pre 7.73.0 curl. --- cmdline/listopts.md | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/cmdline/listopts.md b/cmdline/listopts.md index 3e1e2a1d33..7ed43e5050 100644 --- a/cmdline/listopts.md +++ b/cmdline/listopts.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # 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 @@ -11,10 +11,6 @@ an additional "category" to `-h` to get more options listed for that specific 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