curl/docs/cmdline-opts/capath.md
Daniel Stenberg e7219c2bdc
cmdline-opts: language cleanups
Use imperative mood consistently for the first sentence describing an
option.

"Set this" instead "tell curl to set" or "this sets..."

Plus some extra cleanups and rephrasing.

Closes #13106
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Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. curl capath <dir> CA directory to verify peer against TLS tls 7.9.8 single
cacert
insecure
--capath /local/directory $URL

--capath

Use the specified certificate directory to verify the peer. Multiple paths can be provided by separated with colon (:) (e.g. path1:path2:path3). The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl is built against OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with OpenSSL. Using --capath can allow OpenSSL-powered curl to make SSL-connections much more efficiently than using --cacert if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates.

If this option is set, the default capath value is ignored.