Hide status output from jq in dos/windows
batch-file, curl, jq, json
Solution
curl --silent
-s, --silent
Silent or quiet mode. Do not show progress meter or error messages. Makes Curl
mute.
- Example
- explainshell.com - curl --silent
Problem
I'm using curl for windows (http://www.confusedbycode.com/curl/) in conjunction with jq (http://stedolan.github.io/jq/) to interact with a web api via a batch file. The seemingly simple problem I'm having is that no matter what I do, I cannot seem to suppress JQ's "status" output. In particular, it always outputs "progress status," like: ``` % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 116 100 99 100 17 908 155 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 908 ``` A simplified example batch file would be: ``` @echo off @curl.exe -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{\"cmd\":\"login\"}' http://localhost:80/json | jq -r .session > sess.txt ``` Note that jq does operate as expected - I simply need to get it to operate silently. It seems to ignore @echo off, and I couldn't find any switches in the manual to disable this output. Any ideas...? Thanks much in advance :)