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 ### curl - print the contents of a url to standard output
 
 ```shell
-deno --allow-net=deno.land https://deno.land/std/examples/curl.ts -- https://deno.land/
+deno --allow-net=deno.land https://deno.land/std/examples/curl.ts https://deno.land/
 ```
 
 ### gist - easily create and upload Gists