| Long: netrc |
| Short: n |
| Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password |
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| Makes curl scan the \fI.netrc\fP (\fI_netrc\fP on Windows) file in the user's |
| home directory for login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on |
| Unix. If used with HTTP, curl will enable user authentication. See |
| \fInetrc(5)\fP \fIftp(1)\fP for details on the file format. Curl will not |
| complain if that file doesn't have the right permissions (it should not be |
| either world- or group-readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to |
| find the home directory. |
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| A quick and very simple example of how to setup a \fI.netrc\fP to allow curl |
| to FTP to the machine host.domain.com with user name \&'myself' and password |
| \&'secret' should look similar to: |
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| .B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret" |