curl-curl/docs/cmdline-opts/out-null.md
Stefan Eissing 6845533e24
curl: add long option '--out-null'
Add a new commandline option --out-null that discards all
response bytes into the void. Replaces non-portable use of
'-o /dev/null' with more efficiency.

Feature added in 8.16.0

Closes #17800
2025-07-28 14:57:38 +02:00

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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

--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.