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curl

    1: Long: netrc
    2: Short: n
    3: Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password
    4: ---
    5: Makes curl scan the \fI.netrc\fP (\fI_netrc\fP on Windows) file in the user's
    6: home directory for login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on
    7: Unix. If used with HTTP, curl will enable user authentication. See
    8: \fInetrc(5)\fP \fIftp(1)\fP for details on the file format. Curl will not
    9: complain if that file doesn't have the right permissions (it should not be
   10: either world- or group-readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to
   11: find the home directory.
   12: 
   13: A quick and very simple example of how to setup a \fI.netrc\fP to allow curl
   14: to FTP to the machine host.domain.com with user name \&'myself' and password
   15: \&'secret' should look similar to:
   16: 
   17: .B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret"