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Re: "--out-null"?

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:58:57 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 16 Sep 2025, Paul Gilmartin via curl-users wrote:

> The following seems to transfer the entire 1.6 GB file, despite the
> "--out-null":

That option is basically like an alias for "-o /dev/null". It does not avoid
or prevent the download. It just skips the saving of the data once it has been
downloaded.

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