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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
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# `--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.