You can verify this by using the -I flag, which displays the request headers rather than the contents of the file:. The output shows that the URL was redirected. The first line of the output tells you that it was moved, and the Location line tells you where:. You could use curl to make another request manually, or you can use the --location or -L argument which tells curl to redo the request to the new location whenever it encounters a redirect.
Give it a try:. You can combine the -L argument with some of the aforementioned arguments to download the file to your local system:. Warning : Many resources online will ask you to use curl to download scripts and execute them. You can learn more by viewing the manual page for curl by running man curl. TecAdmin Home Ubuntu Related Posts. Tee Command in Linux with Examples October 26, Handling filenames with spaces in Linux September 15, Rahul on June 2, am.
For a very small file, that status display is not terribly helpful. Let's try it with a bigger file this is the baby names file from the Social Security Administration to see how the progress indicator animates:. Quick note: If you're new to the command-line, you're probably used to commands executing every time you hit Enter. In this case, the command is so long because of the URL that I broke it down into two lines with the use of the backslash , i.
This is solely to make it easier for you to read. As far as the computer cares, it just joins the two lines together as if that backslash weren't there and runs it as one command. The curl progress indicator is a nice affordance, but let's just see if we get curl to act like all of our Unix tools.
In curl 's documentation of options , there is an option for silence:. Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages.
Makes Curl mute. So those are the basics for the curl command. The Linux curl command can do a whole lot more than download files.
Find out what curl is capable of, and when you should use it instead of wget. People often struggle to identify the relative strengths of the wget and curl commands. The commands do have some functional overlap. It can download files, web pages, and directories. It contains intelligent routines to traverse links in web pages and recursively download content across an entire website.
It is unsurpassed as a command-line download manager. Yes, it can retrieve files, but it cannot recursively navigate a website looking for content to retrieve. What curl actually does is let you interact with remote systems by making requests to those systems, and retrieving and displaying their responses to you. And arguably, due to its superior handling of Linux pipes, curl can be more easily integrated with other commands and scripts.
The author of curl has a webpage that describes the differences he sees between curl and wget. Out of the computers used to research this article, Fedora 31 and Manjaro On Ubuntu, run this command to install it:. The --version option makes curl report its version.
It also lists all the protocols that it supports. If the file it is retrieving is a binary file, the outcome can be unpredictable.
The shell may try to interpret some of the byte values in the binary file as control characters or escape sequences.
Because there is no terminal window output to display, curl outputs a set of progress information. In this example, curl detects that the output is being redirected to a file and that it is safe to generate the progress information. Double-clicking that file will open your default browser so that it displays the retrieved web page. Note that the address in the browser address bar is a local file on this computer, not a remote website. We can create a file by using the -o output option, and telling curl to create the file.
To have the text-based download information replaced by a simple progress bar, use the - progress bar option. It is easy to restart a download that has been terminated or interrupted. To restart the download, use the -C continue at option.
This causes curl to restart the download at a specified point or offset within the target file. If you use a hyphen - as the offset, curl will look at the already downloaded portion of the file and determine the correct offset to use for itself.
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