I was trying to read up on it and just based off of the manual it seems not to make sense if I’m not using --silent alongside it, but I found this one article stating otherwise: https://nrogap.medium.com/show-error-response-for-curl-64666cd64330

I can’t figure out if it’s just AI slop or badly researched since it doesn’t even show a real URL to test the commands against.

Manual entry: 

       -S, --show-error
              When used with  -s,  --silent,  it
              makes  curl  show an error message
              if it fails.

              This option is global and does not
              need  to be specified for each use
              of -:, --next.

              Providing -S, --show-error  multi‐
              ple  times  has  no  extra effect.
              Disable it again  with  --no-show-
              error.

              Example:
               curl --show-error --silent https://
example.com

              See also --no-progress-meter.
  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOP
    1·
    24 hours ago

    Yes, it’s usually more efficient for more niche topics.
    Luckily many things still come up with searches, be it stackoverflow or other kinds of forums, the real problem are the SEO spam articles and AI generated stuff (and worse still when they coexist), so it’s becoming harder to discern what is worthwhile and what isn’t. When all else fails I also always try to find my answers by playing around myself