How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar?

Question

I'm trying to use cURL in a script and get it to ***not*** show the progress bar. I've tried the `-s`, `-silent`, `-S`, and `-quiet` options, but none of them work. Here's a typical command I've tried: curl -s http://google.com > temp.html I only get the progress bar when pushing it to a file, so `curl -s http://google.com` doesn't have a progress bar, but `curl -s http://google.com > temp.html` does.

Answer 1

I suspect you have an old or minimalist version of curl that doesn't support the normal command line arguments.

To see what arguments it does support, try running

curl --help

In any case, you should be able to get rid of the progress bar by redirecting standard error to /dev/null. To do this, insert

2>/dev/null

after the command.

Answer 2

Try using -o / --output

curl -s "URL" -o temp.html