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Re: Download head of file

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 14:03:49 -0700

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:09:18PM +0300, Oleg Lomaka wrote:
> I develop a service where users enter an url and script should download
> this page to process. But one may enter the url of huge file I don't
> want to download. But it is need to view first few kbytes.

How about: curl http://example.com | head -c 2048 ?

>>> Dan

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Received on 2006-09-03