At 17:37 +0200 10/14/12, KingTut wrote:
>Hi list, I'm very new to this and i don't know if this is the right place to ask my question.
>
>I'm using curl/7.21.4 on os x 10.7.5
>
>i have a problem when i
>
>check=$(curl url --verbose)
>echo $check
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>this works fine and outputs the file content to the terminal, but if i change the content of the url and then do it again curl keeps outputting the old content of the url and not the new. if i look in the browser the content is not the same as what curl outputs.
>
>is this because there is some sort of cache of the url? is it possible to clear this? - it seem like if a wait a few minutes it will output the updated content.
>

Hmmm. OS 10.7 and probably a default to bash . . . The $(curl ) format is not common and I'm not sure what it does with curl's outout to the error channel for the progress report and possibly some of the --verbose items. It's possible that the echo $check is running too soon.

curl does not stash content or IP addresses.

curl -o aNewFilepath --verbose "http://abcdefg"
cat aNewFilepath

curl --verbose "http://abcdefg" | cat

Might behave more to your liking.

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