Get final URL after curl is redirected

Question

I need to get the final URL after a page redirect preferably with curl or wget.

For example http://google.com may redirect to http://www.google.com

Answer 1

Thanks, that helped me. I made some improvements and wrapped that in a helper script "finalurl":

#!/bin/bash
curl $1 -s -L -I -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}'

• -o output to /dev/null
• -I don't actually download, just discover the final URL
• -s silent mode, no progressbars

This made it possible to call the command from other scripts like this:

echo `finalurl http://someurl/`