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@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Short: o
Help: Write to file instead of stdout
See-also: remote-name remote-name-all remote-header-name
Category: important curl
+Example: -o file $URL
+Example: "http://{one,two}.example.com" -o "file_#1.txt"
+Example: "http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com" -o "#1_#2"
+Example: -o file $URL -o file2 https://example.net
+Added: 4.0
---
Write output to <file> instead of stdout. If you are using {} or [] to fetch
multiple documents, you should quote the URL and you can use '#' followed by a
@@ -22,7 +27,7 @@ this:
curl -o aa example.com -o bb example.net
-and the order of the -o options and the URLs doesn't matter, just that the
+and the order of the -o options and the URLs does not matter, just that the
first -o is for the first URL and so on, so the above command line can also be
written as
@@ -31,3 +36,11 @@ written as
See also the --create-dirs option to create the local directories
dynamically. Specifying the output as '-' (a single dash) will force the
output to be done to stdout.
+
+To suppress response bodies, you can redirect output to /dev/null:
+
+ curl example.com -o /dev/null
+
+Or for Windows use nul:
+
+ curl example.com -o nul