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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/output.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/output.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..876c90c81 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/output.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +SPDX-License-Identifier: curl +Long: output +Arg: <file> +Short: o +Help: Write to file instead of stdout +Category: important curl +Added: 4.0 +Multi: append +See-also: + - remote-name + - remote-name-all + - remote-header-name +Example: + - -o file $URL + - "http://{one,two}.example.com" -o "file_#1.txt" + - "http://{site,host}.host[1-5].example" -o "#1_#2" + - -o file $URL -o file2 https://example.net +--- + +# `--output` + +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 +number in the <file> specifier. That variable is replaced with the current +string for the URL being fetched. Like in: + + curl "http://{one,two}.example.com" -o "file_#1.txt" + +or use several variables like: + + curl "http://{site,host}.host[1-5].example" -o "#1_#2" + +You may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you have. For +example, if you specify two URLs on the same command line, you can use it like +this: + + curl -o aa example.com -o bb example.net + +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 + + curl example.com example.net -o aa -o bb + +See also the --create-dirs option to create the local directories +dynamically. Specifying the output as '-' (a single dash) passes the output to +stdout. + +To suppress response bodies, you can redirect output to /dev/null: + + curl example.com -o /dev/null + +Or for Windows: + + curl example.com -o nul |