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commit 58235a99b04a975d825f4f8f8431a6dcb7acccdc
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date:   Thu Aug 16 17:57:26 2018 +0800

    doc: proper fix rst syntax

commit 6620e3583c0b59e9447bcc44e5f573c61d02e6de
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date:   Thu Aug 16 17:29:25 2018 +0800

    doc: fix syntax

commit 7a048a3c0440ad900917eb865b72dcfb348da879
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date:   Thu Aug 16 17:09:26 2018 +0800

    doc: add info about read args from file.

commit c4ceaf96365422f25357c54af03aadfa7222ce44
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date:   Thu Aug 16 17:05:07 2018 +0800

    alter `fromfile_prefix_chars` to plus sign to avoid conflict.

commit d469b52b95de6bf86761b9315a78ecda2b033ac2
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date:   Mon Aug 6 19:10:23 2018 +0800

    * Allow reading arguments from file

    function referenced from instagram-scraper,
    which provide a convenient way to hide sensitive information.
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docs/cli-options.rst
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@ -192,3 +192,20 @@ Miscellaneous Options
Disable user interaction, i.e. do not print messages (except errors) and fail
if login credentials are needed but not given.
This is handy for running :ref:`instaloader-as-cronjob`.
.. option:: +args.txt
Read arguments from file `args.txt`, a shortcut to provide argument from
file rather than command-line. This provide a convient way to hide login
info from CLI. and also can use for simplify managment of long arguments.
.. note::
text file should separate arg with line break.
args.txt example::
--login MYUSENAME
--password MYPASSWORD
--fast-update

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instaloader/__main__.py
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@ -207,7 +207,8 @@ def main():
parser = ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, add_help=False, usage=usage_string(),
epilog="Report issues at https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/issues. "
"The complete documentation can be found at "
"https://instaloader.github.io/.")
"https://instaloader.github.io/.",
fromfile_prefix_chars='+')
g_what = parser.add_argument_group('What to Download',
'Specify a list of profiles or #hashtags. For each of these, Instaloader '