How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar

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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  gt  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  gt  temp html does

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Not sure why it s doing that  Try -s with the -o option to set the output file instead of  gt

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Since curl 7 67 0  2019-11-06  there is --no-progress-meter  which does exactly this  and nothing else  From the man page      --no-progress-meter          Option to switch off the progress meter output without muting or          otherwise affecting warning and informational messages like  -s           --silent does            Note  that  this  is the negated option name documented  You can          thus use --progress-meter to enable the progress meter again            See also -v  --verbose and -s  --silent  Added in 7 67 0    It s available in Ubuntu  20 04 and Debian  11  Bullseye   For a bit of history on curl s verbosity options  you can read Daniel Stenberg s blog post

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I found that with curl 7 18 2 the download progress bar is not hidden with   curl -s http   google com  gt  temp html   but it is with   curl -ss http   google com  gt  temp html

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curl -s http   google com  gt  temp html   works for curl version 7 19 5 on Ubuntu 9 10  no progress bar   But if for some reason that does not work on your platform  you could always redirect stderr to  dev null   curl  http   google com 2 gt  dev null  gt  temp html

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In curl version 7 22 0 on Ubuntu and 7 24 0 on OSX the solution to not show progress but to show errors is to use both -s  --silent  and -S  --show-error  like so  curl -sS http   google com  gt  temp html  This works for both redirected output  gt   some file  piped output   less and outputting directly to the terminal for me  Update  Since curl 7 67 0 there is a new option --no-progress-meter which does precisely this and nothing else  see clonejo s answer for more details

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On MacOS 10 13 6  High Sierra   the  -ss  option works   It is especially useful inside perl  in a command like curl -ss --get  someURL   which frankly is a whole lot more simple than any of the LWP or HTTP wrappers  for just getting a website or webpage s contents

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this could help   curl  http   example com   gt   dev null

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