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Does it make sense to use --show-error by itself in curl (lemy.lol)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I was trying to read up on it and just based off of the manual it seems not to make sense if I'm not using --silent alongside it, but I found this one article stating otherwise: https://nrogap.medium.com/show-error-response-for-curl-64666cd64330

I can't figure out if it's just AI slop or badly researched since it doesn't even show a real URL to test the commands against.

Manual entry:


       -S, --show-error
              When used with  -s,  --silent,  it
              makes  curl  show an error message
              if it fails.

              This option is global and does not
              need  to be specified for each use
              of -:, --next.

              Providing -S, --show-error  multi‐
              ple  times  has  no  extra effect.
              Disable it again  with  --no-show-
              error.

              Example:
               curl --show-error --silent https://
example.com

              See also --no-progress-meter.

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago

Just learned that you can pipe tar into any compression tool, if that is not natively supported.

It has less integrity checks but huge performance benefits for sure

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