What is the cURL -s option?

Question

Here's an example:

curl -s acme:acmesecret@localhost:9999/uaa/oauth/token

It looks like it is used to specify the that the URL contains the acme:acmesecret (Authentication credentials) part?

Reference

As Charles pointed out these types of questions are very easy to answer with explainshell . So if you ended up here you will probably have other similar questions and explainshell is the way to go.

Answer 1

It means silent. Here's an explainshell link . Plan on using that a lot in the future!