| Long: limit-rate |
| Arg: <speed> |
| Help: Limit transfer speed to RATE |
| Category: connection |
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| Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use - for both downloads |
| and uploads. This feature is useful if you have a limited pipe and you'd like |
| your transfer not to use your entire bandwidth. To make it slower than it |
| otherwise would be. |
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| The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended. |
| Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it |
| megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. |
| |
| If you also use the --speed-limit option, that option will take precedence and |
| might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to help keeping the speed-limit |
| logic working. |
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| If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. |
