slightly edited explanation for -f/--fail by the help of Kjell Ericson

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index e5b8814..a6745f5 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -355,9 +355,9 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-f/--fail"
 (HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done
 like this to better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts. In
-normal cases when a HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns a HTML
-document stating so (which often also describes why and more). This flag will
-prevent curl from outputting that and fail silently instead.
+normal cases when a HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns an
+HTML document stating so (which often also describes why and more). This flag
+will prevent curl from outputting that and return error 22.
 
 If this option is used twice, the second will again disable silent failure.
 .IP "--ftp-account [data]"