Curl to return http status code along with the response

Question

I use curl to get http headers to find http status code and also return response. I get the http headers with the command

curl -I http://localhost
         


        

Answer 1

I was able to get a solution by looking at the curl doc which specifies to use - for the output to get the output to stdout.

curl -o - http://localhost

To get the response with just the http return code, I could just do

curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}\n" http://localhost