On 2016-11-30 20:00, Steven Penny wrote: > $ 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
This is a common problem: not handling a closed pipe silently. Testing curl on WSL/UfW and Debian does not give this error. This may be a regression in the newer Cygwin curl version 7.51 vs older UfW 7.35 and Debian 7.38, or it could be a design decision. See if has been reported upstream at curl.haxx.se, and report it if not. Using | sed '10q' also gives the error. You can work around it using | awk 'NR<=10', | awk -vn=10 'NR<=n', or | awk 'NR<=n' n=10 to get a similar result. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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
