Like in this case, I find myself looking at the response headers of GET Requests quite often, so: alias h='curl -sIw "Time: %{time_total}s\n" -X GET' This i

Like in this case, I find myself looking at the response headers of GET Requests quite often, so: alias h='curl -sIw "Time: %{time_total}s\n" -X GET' This issues a GET on the given URL, printing only the response headers and the time elapsed. Append -L if you want to follow redirects.