get file size of a file to wget before wget-ing it?

Question

I\'m wondering if there is a way to check ahead of time the size of a file I might download via wget? I know that using the --spider option tells m

Answer 1

curl --head URL

Look for "Content-Length:" in the output.

And thanks to Henning Makholm's comment:

wget --spider URL

and look for "Length:" in the output.