some useful CURL's command line arguments

Some useful CURL's command line arguments

Curl follow location : use "-L" option
   i.e If page redirects, curl should redirect to that page as well or to follow the location
    curl -L -b google.com

Curl add proxy 
    curl -x 172.28.1.253:8080 ftp://ftp.leachsite.com/README

Curl user agent
   curl -A 'Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I)' http://www.nationsbank.com/


 Other common strings:
   'Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I)'     Netscape Version 3 for Windows 95
   'Mozilla/3.04 (Win95; U)'    Netscape Version 3 for Windows 95
   'Mozilla/2.02 (OS/2; U)'     Netscape Version 2 for OS/2
   'Mozilla/4.04 [en] (X11; U; AIX 4.2; Nav)'           NS for AIX
   'Mozilla/4.05 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.32 i586)'      NS for Linux

To run Curl Silently without producing any output on the screen:   --use '-s' with '-o ' option

      curl -s -o my_output_file.txt  http://www.example.com