On 08/05/2018 04:20 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 08/05/2018 03:44 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to ask curl to tell me is a url exists without
>>> downloading it if it does?
>>
>>   curl -f http://example.com/non-exists
>>
>
> $ curl -f http://example.com/non-exists
> curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
>
> Perfect.  Just look for the 404
>
> Thank you!
>
>

Adding --head to it keep it from downloading if
the file exists

$ curl --fail --head http://example.com/non-exists
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found

$ curl --fail --head http://gbis.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:46:25 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Fedora)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=k8uiqbdqk4cq299r6vscdgpr41; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0,
pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

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Received on 2018-08-06