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@@ -4,13 +4,16 @@ Help: Control CWD usage
Protocols: FTP
Added: 7.15.1
Category: ftp
+Example: --ftp-method multicwd ftp://example.com/dir1/dir2/file
+Example: --ftp-method nocwd ftp://example.com/dir1/dir2/file
+Example: --ftp-method singlecwd ftp://example.com/dir1/dir2/file
---
Control what method curl should use to reach a file on an FTP(S)
server. The method argument should be one of the following alternatives:
.RS
.IP multicwd
curl does a single CWD operation for each path part in the given URL. For deep
-hierarchies this means very many commands. This is how RFC 1738 says it should
+hierarchies this means many commands. This is how RFC 1738 says it should
be done. This is the default but the slowest behavior.
.IP nocwd
curl does no CWD at all. curl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give a full