On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:00:40PM -0400, Russ Jones wrote:
> Is there an option to limit the number of bytes, perhaps to 200KB when
> downloading a file using cURL?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russ
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Sure, the manpage details this option:

  --max-filesize <bytes>
        Specify the maximum size (in bytes) of a file to download. If
        the file requested is larger than this value, the transfer will
        not start and curl will return with exit code 63.

dave
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Received on 2012-07-02