httpie-capture-response-status-and-body-explained.sh

http --headers \               # Print out the response headers (they would otherwise be supressed for piped ouput)
     --download \              # Enable download mode
     --output=./body  \        # Save response body to this file
     httpbin.org/get 2>&1 \    # Merge STDERR into STDOUT (with --download, console output otherwise goes to STDERR)
     | grep HTTP/  \           # Find the Status-Line
     | cut -d ' ' -f 2         # Get the status code

httpie-capture-response-status-and-body.sh

STATUS=$(http -hdo ./body httpbin.org/get 2>&1 | grep HTTP/  | cut -d ' ' -f 2)
BODY=$(cat ./body)
rm ./body
echo $STATUS
# 200
echo $BODY
# { "args": {}, "headers": { "Accept": "*/*", "Accept-Encoding": "identity", "Host": "httpbin.org", "User-Agent": "HTTPie/1.0.0-dev" }, "origin": "84.242.118.58", "url": "http://httpbin.org/get" }

thank you

--headers Print out the response headers (they would otherwise be supressed for piped ouput)

Thank you! Spent a few minutes trying to figure out wtf is going on.