From 2d5b854468c2612dcfe45a659b85d92db2672cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:23:21 -0400
Subject: Allow reading command-line args from files (fixes #16)

---
 manual/qpdf-manual.xml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'manual/qpdf-manual.xml')

diff --git a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
index 4fde831a..178174ea 100644
--- a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
+++ b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
@@ -254,6 +254,14 @@ make
     were going to add pages from another source, as discussed in <xref
     linkend="ref.page-selection"/>.
    </para>
+   <para>
+    If <option>@filename</option> appears anywhere in the
+    command-line, it will be read line by line, and each line will be
+    treated as a command-line argument. The <option>@-</option> option
+    allows arguments to be read from standard input. This allows qpdf
+    to be invoked with an arbitrary number of arbitrarily long
+    arguments.
+   </para>
    <para>
     <option>outfilename</option> does not have to be seekable, even
     when generating linearized files.  Specifying
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