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Comment by kasabali | Hacker News Reader

I use `curl -JLOC-` It's easy to remember, JLO is jlo, C is continue, - for symmetry.

Stealing this, but had to lookup the parameters. It does work, but it should be `-C -` with a space. Also I like progress bars so my alias for now is:

  curl -#JLOC -

* -# Progress bar instead of the standard meter

* -J Use the server-specified Content-Disposition filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL

* -L Follow redirects

* -O Write output to a local file (download)

* -C - Resume transfers

Maybe a good mnemonic would be something along the lines of jlo liking hashtags?

>* -J Use the server-specified Content-Disposition filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL

Can't wrap my head around how -J maps to remote header name...still, this was super useful, thanks!

> but it should be `-C -` with a space

Works just fine without it

Not in my Debian distro and also documented differently in the man pages. If it works for you: nice

My curl complains when -J/--remote-header-name and -C/--continue-at is combined.

  $ curl -JLOC- "https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css?nZdOgS3Y18zj0ynCo50h"
  curl: --continue-at and --remote-header-name cannot be combined
  curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information

“jlo” as in Jennifer Lopez or how does that mnemonic work?

Exactly.

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