using cURL to download all files in certain folder, except 404 error page?

Question

I'm using cURL in ubuntu to download some files like

pic001.jpg

pic002.jpg

pic003.jpg

...

pic999.jpg

While some files may be missing from this sequence but when I just use

 curl -O http://foo.bar/pic[001-999].jpg

cURL will download a 404 error page for those missing ones. How can I avoid this?

Answer 1

The option -f prevents curl from generating any output in case of an server error. See the man page.