docs/silent: mention --show-error in --silent description

Reported in #1190
Reported-by: Dan Jacobson

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/silent.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/silent.d
index 3212791297edf1e5ad3f3aab7d142021c2f3fc8b..7603b7634c7ece48ba294601a91997bdbfa7b470 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/silent.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/silent.d
@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ See-also: verbose stderr
 Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages.  Makes Curl
 mute. It will still output the data you ask for, potentially even to the
 terminal/stdout unless you redirect it.
+
+Use --show-error in addition to this option to disable progress meter but
+still show error messages.

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index f3b05ffe5657279745b315fb8fa23d27d8fdcef1..ce54fb2f13e608f14897d32d8fd39acdc9599118 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -1886,6 +1886,9 @@ Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages.  Makes Curl
 mute. It will still output the data you ask for, potentially even to the
 terminal/stdout unless you redirect it.
 
+Use \fI-S, --show-error\fP in addition to this option to disable progress meter but
+still show error messages.
+
 See also \fI-v, --verbose\fP and \fI--stderr\fP.
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