First of all, thanks for making curl available!  It's a very handy tool. Now, the misfeature:     curl URL >output will display a progress bar.  That's OK for interactive use, but not ok for scripts.  Option -s will turn off the progress bar, but it also turns off displaying error messages.  Similarly, redirecting stderr to /dev/null seems to be a synonym for -s.  There should be some way of turning off the progress bar without turning off error messages.  I can't see it in the manpage. I believe this applies to most/all versions of curl, but for reference, one of them is: cygwin $ curl -V curl 7.20.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) libcurl/7.20.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.2.5 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz Thanks! -- John Wiersba

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Received on 2012-01-24