Long: output Arg: Short: o Help: Write to file instead of stdout See-also: remote-name remote-name-all remote-header-name Category: important curl Example: -o file $URL Example: "http://{one,two}.example.com" -o "file_#1.txt" Example: "http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com" -o "#1_#2" Example: -o file $URL -o file2 https://example.net Added: 4.0 --- Write output to instead of stdout. If you are using {} or [] to fetch multiple documents, you should quote the URL and you can use '#' followed by a number in the specifier. That variable will be replaced with the current string for the URL being fetched. Like in: curl "http://{one,two}.example.com" -o "file_#1.txt" or use several variables like: curl "http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com" -o "#1_#2" You may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you have. For example, if you specify two URLs on the same command line, you can use it like this: curl -o aa example.com -o bb example.net and the order of the -o options and the URLs does not matter, just that the first -o is for the first URL and so on, so the above command line can also be written as curl example.com example.net -o aa -o bb See also the --create-dirs option to create the local directories dynamically. Specifying the output as '-' (a single dash) will force the output to be done to stdout. To suppress response bodies, you can redirect output to /dev/null: curl example.com -o /dev/null Or for Windows use nul: curl example.com -o nul