docs/cmdline: fix grammar and typos

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7432
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7436
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7438
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7440
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7445

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/globoff.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/globoff.d
index 4b5f30de916a8d62354a50c5fb9d4c43b033edd1..1db0fa264bf5fe46cae40e9b553a4d420f1713c2 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/globoff.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/globoff.d
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ Help: Disable URL sequences and ranges using {} and []
 Category: curl
 ---
 This option switches off the "URL globbing parser". When you set this option,
-you can specify URLs that contain the letters {}[] without having them being
-interpreted by curl itself. Note that these letters are not normal legal URL
-contents but they should be encoded according to the URI standard.
+you can specify URLs that contain the letters {}[] without having curl itself
+interpret them. Note that these letters are not normal legal URL contents but
+they should be encoded according to the URI standard.

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/http3.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/http3.d
index 478b662aa90e037ba63feb23a897f6cfa325c33b..8e3c30161b8eee0991135cbdce794996d4f42fb3 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/http3.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/http3.d
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ WARNING: this option is experimental. Do not use in production.
 
 Tells curl to use HTTP version 3 directly to the host and port number used in
 the URL. A normal HTTP/3 transaction will be done to a host and then get
-redirected via Alt-SVc, but this option allows a user to circumvent that when
+redirected via Alt-Svc, but this option allows a user to circumvent that when
 you know that the target speaks HTTP/3 on the given host and port.
 
 This option will make curl fail if a QUIC connection cannot be established, it

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/libcurl.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/libcurl.d
index eb9850c680cc4362c117e3bea8f5c9d9e9ca225c..60921f5f9134c3cc79ebc2df44f5526332dbe992 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/libcurl.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/libcurl.d
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Help: Dump libcurl equivalent code of this command line
 Added: 7.16.1
 Category: curl
 ---
-Append this option to any ordinary curl command line, and you will get a
+Append this option to any ordinary curl command line, and you will get
 libcurl-using C source code written to the file that does the equivalent
 of what your command-line operation does!
 

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/list-only.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/list-only.d
index c69885801b4de28f5baf971a65d74ec91eaefed8..ac39906929a89c4775d01773b969be94a50037d2 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/list-only.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/list-only.d
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Category: ftp pop3
 When listing an FTP directory, this switch forces a name-only view. This is
 especially useful if the user wants to machine-parse the contents of an FTP
 directory since the normal directory view doesn't use a standard look or
-format. When used like this, the option causes a NLST command to be sent to
+format. When used like this, the option causes an NLST command to be sent to
 the server instead of LIST.
 
 Note: Some FTP servers list only files in their response to NLST; they do not
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ include sub-directories and symbolic links.
 (POP3)
 When retrieving a specific email from POP3, this switch forces a LIST command
 to be performed instead of RETR. This is particularly useful if the user wants
-to see if a specific message id exists on the server and what size it is.
+to see if a specific message-id exists on the server and what size it is.
 
-Note: When combined with --request, this option can be used to send an UIDL
+Note: When combined with --request, this option can be used to send a UIDL
 command instead, so the user may use the email's unique identifier rather than
-it's message id to make the request.
+its message-id to make the request.

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/login-options.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/login-options.d
index 887d5d517eaf30305e04f8663e00da611905ddeb..b12246885b691b505e84f35f2ccd5ee479704c64 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/login-options.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/login-options.d
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ Category: imap pop3 smtp auth
 ---
 Specify the login options to use during server authentication.
 
-You can use the login options to specify protocol specific options that may
-be used during authentication. At present only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support
-login options. For more information about the login options please see
-RFC 2384, RFC 5092 and IETF draft draft-earhart-url-smtp-00.txt
+You can use login options to specify protocol specific options that may be
+used during authentication. At present only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support
+login options. For more information about login options please see RFC
+2384, RFC 5092 and IETF draft draft-earhart-url-smtp-00.txt
 
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.