On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, James B. Byrne wrote:

> Although I cannot grasp the logic behind giving such notice to stdout if
> that is all one expects to begin with.

I don't understand your question. What is the logic about giving output to
stdout when you ask for it? curl is about sending or getting data specified by
a URL, in your case you get data. The default output "mechanism" of data you
get is using stdout.

That's as simple as it is really.

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