$ curl --version curl 7.51.0 Piping cURL to head gives me an error, as expected:
$ curl https://github.com/github | head [...] (23) Failed writing body However adding the silent option, is not silencing it: $ curl --silent https://github.com/github | head [...] (23) Failed writing body I can quiet the error with: curl https://github.com/github 2>/dev/null | head but silent should be taking care of this. Note the Windows version here works as expected: http://bintray.com/vszakats/generic/curl cross post: http://stackoverflow.com/q/40901579/silent-option-not-silencing-curl-error -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple