On Thu, 25 May 2000, Robert Fejer wrote:

> Is there a way to instruct curl to retrieve (through HTTP) only the files
> within given size limits?
>
> In my case, I have a list of images, and want to get only the ones
> smaller than 50 KB...

Yes. Well, there's no built-in "get-if-size-is-less-than" functionality, but
you can easily write a wrapper that does so.

You HEAD the image first (curl -I) to get the size of it (Content-Length:),
and if it seems reasonable, get it for real.

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