[options] Add --limit-rate alias for rate limiting option

Closes #9644
In order to follow regular --verb-noun pattern and better conformity with wget and curl

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 38efd292d2a70632eca7ebbade6df66f934d8e10..14051b7143d3003098d59b40362116447c156a3e 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
 
     downloader = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, 'Download Options')
     downloader.add_option(
-        '-r', '--rate-limit',
-        dest='ratelimit', metavar='LIMIT',
+        '-r', '--limit-rate', '--rate-limit',
+        dest='ratelimit', metavar='RATE',
         help='Maximum download rate in bytes per second (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)')
     downloader.add_option(
         '-R', '--retries',