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

On MacOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra), the '-ss' option works. It is especially useful inside perl, in a command like curl -ss --get {someURL}, which frankly is a whole lot more simple than any of the LWP or HTTP wrappers, for just getting a website or webpage's contents.