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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/_OPTIONS.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/_OPTIONS.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1b2556659 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/_OPTIONS.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +<!-- Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. --> +<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: curl --> +# OPTIONS +Options start with one or two dashes. Many of the options require an +additional value next to them. If provided text does not start with a dash, it +is presumed to be and treated as a URL. + +The short "single-dash" form of the options, -d for example, may be used with +or without a space between it and its value, although a space is a recommended +separator. The long "double-dash" form, --data for example, requires a space +between it and its value. + +Short version options that do not need any additional values can be used +immediately next to each other, like for example you can specify all the +options *-O*, *-L* and *-v* at once as *-OLv*. + +In general, all boolean options are enabled with --**option** and yet again +disabled with --**no-**option. That is, you use the same option name but +prefix it with "no-". However, in this list we mostly only list and show the +*--option* version of them. + +When --next is used, it resets the parser state and you start again with a +clean option state, except for the options that are "global". Global options +retain their values and meaning even after --next. + +The following options are global: `%GLOBALS`. |