Making curl send errors to stderr and everything else to stdout

Question

Is there a way to tell curl to output errors to stderr, and everything else to stdout?

The reason is that I am using curl from the command line (actually a cronjob)

Answer 1

Try this:

# No error messages because it succeeds.
curl  http://www.shikadi.net/        --fail --silent --show-error

# This prints an error message to stderr
curl  http://i.like.you.def.maybe/   --fail --silent --show-error

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Thanks to Russell Davis's answer on this page, man curl, and trial and error. For the curious, here is the wget version of the question: https://superuser.com/questions/420120/wget-is-silent-but-it-displays-error-messages