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    1: Long: proxy-user
    2: Short: U
    3: Arg: <user:password>
    4: Help: Proxy user and password
    5: ---
    6: Specify the user name and password to use for proxy authentication.
    7: 
    8: If you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and do either Negotiate or NTLM
    9: authentication then you can tell curl to select the user name and password
   10: from your environment by specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :".
   11: 
   12: On systems where it works, curl will hide the given option argument from
   13: process listings. This is not enough to protect credentials from possibly
   14: getting seen by other users on the same system as they will still be visible
   15: for a brief moment before cleared. Such sensitive data should be retrieved
   16: from a file instead or similar and never used in clear text in a command line.
   17: 
   18: If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.