In the documentation we always encourage using a space between and that works the same even if you use -d or --data.

The fact that you can merge short options together with its following argument is more of a generic command line parser feature and I think it should probably be documented at the top of the document describing how options are used in general with curl.

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** [bugs:#1279] Man Page: POST --data<space><data> space is wrong**
**Status:** open
**Labels:** documentation POST 
**Created:** Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:54 PM UTC by Jerry Krinock
**Last Updated:** Fri Sep 13, 2013 07:41 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
In curl version 7.24.0, in Mac OS X 10.8, in the man page, the examples given for the -POST data options: d, -data etc. all have a space between the option and the data.  Example: --data <data>.  When I do this, it doesn't work.  The server gets the data "ata".  I noticed that these three characters were the last three characters in the option "data".  So I tried it without the space, -d<data>, and it worked.
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