Is there a way to follow redirects with command line cURL

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I know that in a php script   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  true     will follow redirects  Is there a way to follow redirects with command line cURL

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As said  to follow redirects you can use the flag -L or --location   curl -L http   www example com   But  if you want limit the number of redirects  add the parameter --max-redirs   --max-redirs  lt num gt        Set  maximum number of redirection-followings allowed  If -L  --location is used  this option     can be used to prevent curl from following redirections  in absurdum   By default  the limit     is set to 50 redirections  Set this option to -1 to make it limitless      If this option is used several times  the last one will be used

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I had a similar problem  I am posting my solution here because I believe it might help one of the commenters  For me  the obstacle was that the page required a login and then gave me a new URL through javascript  Here is what I had to do  curl -c cookiejar -g -O -J -L -F  quot j username username quot  -F  quot j password password quot   lt URL gt   Note that j username and j password is the name of the fields for my website s login form  You will have to open the source of the webpage to see what the  name  of the username field and the  name  of the password field is in your case  After that I go an html file with java script in which the new URL was embedded  After parsing this out just resubmit with the new URL  curl -c cookiejar -g -O -J -L -F  quot j username username quot  -F  quot j password password quot   lt NEWURL gt

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Use the location header flag   curl -L  lt URL gt

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