On Feb 11, 2011, at 14:29, skip wrote:
> Is there a command line option to stop the file transfer before the entire file is transferred from an http source?
> My need is for getting a snapshot of an http page that is constantly being updated/appended through tail -f. I just want to get a few lines of the current http output and stop. Right now curl runs forever.
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Hey skip,

As Dan said this is not guaranteed to work with all pages and servers:

curl -sL --user-agent 'Opera/9.70 (Linux ppc64 ; U; en) Presto/2.2.1' --range 0-100 --dump-header - 'http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html'

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Best Regards,
Chris

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Received on 2011-02-12