curl won't shut up (--silent does nothing)

I'm writing a quick shell script, and I cannot for the life of me get curl to suppress the progress bar.

The relevant line looks like this:

curl http://website -o $temp >/dev/null 2>&1

When I run my script, I still get the progress output.

I've tried adding -s, -sS, -s, --silent, and redirecting the output to /dev/null as seen above.

How do I get curl to do what it's being told?

bash
curl

Mikey T.K.

Posted 2014-07-17T16:32:35.620

Reputation: 3 224

Sounds really strange... what curl / OS version? Works as expected with curl 7.36.0 (i686-pc-cygwin). – mpy – 2014-07-17T16:41:40.950

3I find that curl http://website -o temp 2>/dev/null produces no output on the terminal with curl 7.27.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu). What's in your temp variable (maybe something that is affecting the expanded command)? – AFH – 2014-07-17T17:13:38.093

curl won't shut up (--silent does nothing)

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