I'm using cURL on the command line to automate the downloading of many files from a server. I'm wondering where cURL stores its data whilst it's downloading.
The reason I need this info is so I can calculate the amount of data which has been downloaded as a percentage of the total.
Use the -# switch to display the progress bar.
While downloading, curl buffers data in the RAM and regularly flushes it to the output (which is probably a file in your case, but may be anything).
Looking at its manual page, I don't see an easy way to get download progress within a script. If you'd provide more details, I'll try to find a solution.
