cmdline-opts/_PROGRESS.md: explain the suffixes

Closes #18817

diff --git a/.github/scripts/spellcheck.words b/.github/scripts/spellcheck.words
index aafaeff6d927d85713feeade3f9b86fbff3532cf..fb4d9532e6fa291ef31c619ea14d4c9af67c1acc 100644 (file)
--- a/.github/scripts/spellcheck.words
+++ b/.github/scripts/spellcheck.words
@@ -231,9 +231,9 @@ else's
 encodings
 enctype
 endianness
-enums
 Engler
 enum
+enums
 epoll
 EPRT
 EPSV
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ GETing
 getpwuid
 ggcov
 Ghedini
+giga
 Gisle
 Glesys
 globbed
@@ -617,6 +618,7 @@ PEM
 pem
 perl
 permafailing
+peta
 PINGs
 pipelining
 PKCS
@@ -846,6 +848,7 @@ Tatsuhiro
 TBD
 TCP
 tcpdump
+tera
 testability
 testcurl
 TFTP

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/_PROGRESS.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/_PROGRESS.md
index 4cbbd8eb7800c445951cdbbf87e486b3c71a77cb..9ab1ce8c9bf70e87e8d222b1b1a9ed45c8367632 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/_PROGRESS.md
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/_PROGRESS.md
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 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, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024 bytes. 1M is 1048576
-bytes.
+(`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.
 
 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*