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# List options | ||
# Help | ||
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curl has more than two hundred and fifty command-line options and the number | ||
curl has more than two hundred and sixty command-line options and the number | ||
of options keep increasing over time. Chances are the number of options | ||
reaches or even surpasses three hundred in the coming years. | ||
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## List options | ||
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To find out which options you need to perform a certain action, you can get | ||
curl to list them. First, `curl --help` or simply `curl -h` get you a list of | ||
the most important and frequently used options. You can then provide 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. | ||
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## Help with a specific option | ||
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To get curl to display the documentation about a single specific command line | ||
option, add the option after `-h`. Use either the short name with a single | ||
dash (`-`) or the long version using two dashes (`--`). | ||
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For example, learn what `-U` does by running | ||
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curl -h -U | ||
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Or get `--insecure` explained like this: | ||
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curl -h --insecure | ||
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## Full manual | ||
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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 | ||
and we encourage use of a search function through those text masses. Some | ||
people might also appreciate the man page in its | ||
[web version](https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html). | ||
people might also appreciate the man page in its [web | ||
version](https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html). |