dl/third/libcurl/docs/cmdline-opts/out-null.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: out-null Help: Discard response data into the void Category: output Added: 8.16.0 Multi: per-URL See-also:

• output
• remote-name
• remote-name-all
• remote-header-name Example:
• "https://example.com" --out-null

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--out-null

Discard all response output of a transfer silently. This is the more efficient and portable version of

curl https://host.example -o /dev/null

The transfer is done in full, all data is received and checked, but the bytes are not written anywhere.