Save cURL Command Output to a external file

By default when you do an HTTP GET/POST/PUT/DELETE method request using the cURL command, the output is displayed on the console (standard output)

In order to save the output of a cURL command to a file make use of the -o or --output option followed by the filename and the URL.

Example:

% curl -o sample.csv https://code2care.org/sample.csv
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    59  100    59    0     0    621      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   670

% cat sample.csv
1,Sample-1,100
2,Sample-2,200
3,Sample-3,300
4,Sample-4,400

Note: Make use of -O (capital letter O) if you want to save the file as that at the remote location.

Example:

% curl -O https://code2care.org/sample.csv
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    59  100    59    0     0    612      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   655

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