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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: head Short: I Help: Show document info only Protocols: HTTP FTP FILE Category: http ftp file Added: 4.0 Multi: boolean See-also:

  • get
  • verbose
  • trace-ascii Example:
  • -I $URL ---

--head

Fetch the headers only! HTTP-servers feature the command HEAD which this uses to get nothing but the header of a document. When used on an FTP or FILE file, curl displays the file size and last modification time only.