How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar?

Question

I\'m trying to use cURL in a script and get it to not show the progress bar.

I\'ve tried the -s, -silent,

Answer 1

curl -s http://google.com > temp.html

works for curl version 7.19.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 (no progress bar). But if for some reason that does not work on your platform, you could always redirect stderr to /dev/null:

curl  http://google.com 2>/dev/null > temp.html