cmdline-opts/_PROGRESS.md: explain the suffixes

Closes #18817
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Daniel Stenberg 2025-10-02 17:17:22 +02:00
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encodings
enctype
endianness
enums
Engler
enum
enums
epoll
EPRT
EPSV
@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ GETing
getpwuid
ggcov
Ghedini
giga
Gisle
Glesys
globbed
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pem
perl
permafailing
peta
PINGs
pipelining
PKCS
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TBD
TCP
tcpdump
tera
testability
testcurl
TFTP

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curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the
amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc. The
progress meter displays the transfer rate in bytes per second. The suffixes
(k, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024 bytes. 1M is 1048576
bytes.
(`k` for kilo, `M` for mega, `G` for giga, `T` for tera, and `P` for peta) are
1024 based. For example 1k is 1024 bytes. 1M is 1048576 bytes.
curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so if you invoke curl to
do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it *disables*