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Daniel Stenberg
2025-11-12
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_PROGRESS.md: add the E unit, mention kibibyte
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| @@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ et | |
| etag | |
| ETag | |
| ETags | |
| + | exa |
| exe | |
| executables | |
| EXPN | |
| @@ -417,6 +418,7 @@ kerberos | |
| Keychain | |
| keychain | |
| KiB | |
| + | kibibyte |
| kickstart | |
| Kirei | |
| Knauf | |
| @@ -491,6 +493,7 @@ Mavrogiannopoulos | |
| Mbed | |
| mbedTLS | |
| md | |
| + | mebibyte |
| Meglio | |
| memdebug | |
| MesaLink | |
docs/cmdline-opts/_PROGRESS.md+6 -5
| @@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ | |
| curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the | |
| amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc. The | |
| - | progress meter displays the transfer rate in bytes per second. The suffixes |
| - | (`k` for kilo, `M` for mega, `G` for giga, `T` for tera, and `P` for peta) are |
| - | 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024 bytes. 1M is 1048576 bytes. |
| + | progress meter displays the transfer rate in bytes per second. The used |
| + | suffixes (`k` for kilo, `M` for mega, `G` for giga, `T` for tera, `P` for peta |
| + | and `E` for exa) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024 bytes. 1M is 1048576 |
| + | bytes. Strictly speaking this makes the units kibibyte and mebibyte etc. |
| curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so if you invoke curl to | |
| do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it *disables* | |
| @@ -14,8 +15,8 @@ the progress meter as otherwise it would mess up the output mixing progress | |
| meter and response data. | |
| If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to | |
| - | redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (\>), --output |
| - | or similar. |
| + | redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (\>), --output or |
| + | similar. |
| This does not apply to FTP upload as that operation does not spit out any | |
| response data to the terminal. | |