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My thoughts as well.

I think commands could have progress but only as explicit option. I wish curl and 'docker pull' didnt spew so much text by default, filling up so many jenkins server's disks.

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I know you said “by default” so I’m assuming you know some ways around this, but in case you don’t, or for anyone who might find this useful … you can be really specific with curl outputs. It’s pretty sick.

curl -sS -w '%{http_code} %{http_version}' https://www.goog le.com -o /dev/null

https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/verbose/writeout

I’ve only recently had to use curl’s features more in-depth, so I’m still fascinated by its potential.

Thanks! This sounds like a great tool for simple scripts where something like a quick response code (etc) would be useful to know. I'm imagining something like:

Creating ticket... (200 OK)

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