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Simple one-liner curl command for macOS/Unix bash terminal to repeatedly check a specific url
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curl_url_check.sh
# Remark: list of valid timezones: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
clear; while [ : ]; do curl -sSL -w '%{http_code} %{url_effective} ' "https://github.com" -o /dev/null; echo $(TZ=":Europe/Zurich" date); sleep 5; done
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curl_url_check_cachebusting.sh
# The following variation adds a dynamic cache busting query parameter to every request
clear; while [ : ]; do curl -sSL -w '%{http_code} %{url_effective} ' "https://github.com/?nocache=$(od -An -N2 -i /dev/random | tr -d ' ')" -o /dev/null; echo $(TZ=":Europe/Zurich" date); sleep 1; done
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