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 ### usage
 
+**linux/bsd**
+
 ```bash
 riptide \
                                --sitemap https://example.com/sitemap.xml \
@@ -39,6 +41,13 @@ riptide \
                                --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0"
 ```
 
+**windows**
+in same directory as riptide.
+
+```bash
+.\riptide.exe --sitemap https://example.com/sitemap.xml --output examplecomurls.txt --scheme https --workers 16 --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0"
+```
+
 for searching for terms in urls after output is completed, i recommend [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep).
 
 by default, riptide identifies itself in user agent, the above example overrides it.