On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, Gerard Seibert wrote:

> I am using curl as shown here: curl -s -L -R -z "file-name" -O "URL"
>
> What I would like to know is if there is a way to have curl issue an exit
> code depending on whether or not it actually downloaded a newer file.
> Apparently, curl always exits on "0" unless an error occurs which means I
> have to check to see if a newer file was fetched.

You could use -w and output the HTTP response code, as that will be 2xx when
it downloads the file and 304 when not.

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