This is more SysAdmin related, but one power-curl function I use atleast 30 times a day is this alias I have in my .bash_aliases This will output the HTTP stat

This is more SysAdmin related, but one power-curl function I use atleast 30 times a day is this alias I have in my .bash_aliases This will output the HTTP status code for a given URL. alias hstat="curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '%{http_code}\n'" $1 Example: $ hstat google.com 301 I also use curl as an 'uptime monitor' by adding onto that code section. (a file with a list of URLs, and "if http status code !=200" then email me.) There are variations on this all over the place but I really depend on it and I like it.