Automatically add newline at end of curl response body

Question

If the HTTP response body for a curl request doesn\'t contain a trailing newline, I end up with this really annoying condition where the shell prompt is in the middle of the

Answer 1

From the man file:

To better allow script programmers to get to know about the progress of curl, the -w/--write-out option was introduced. Using this, you can specify what information from the previous transfer you want to extract.

To display the amount of bytes downloaded together with some text and an ending newline:

curl -w 'We downloaded %{size_download} bytes\n' www.download.com

So try adding the following to your ~/.curlrc file:

-w "\n"