Script to get the HTTP status code of a list of urls?

Question

I have a list of URLS that I need to check, to see if they still work or not. I would like to write a bash script that does that for me.

I only need the returned HTT

Answer 1

Use curl to fetch the HTTP-header only (not the whole file) and parse it:

$ curl -I  --stderr /dev/null http://www.google.co.uk/index.html | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2
200