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Re: small error in manual ?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:01:26 +0200 (MET DST)

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Sebastien WILLEMIJNS wrote:

> in "http://curl.haxx.se/docs/readme.curl.html"
>
> --------------
> Upload all data on stdin to a specified ftp site:
> curl -T - ftp://ftp.upload.com/myfile
> --------------
>
> it is logic this "-" twice ?

-T takes a additional file name to upload, using the name "-" makes it upload
from stdin instead of a local file.

That is fully intentional.

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
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Received on 2002-05-22