How do I pipe or redirect the output of curl -v?

Question

For some reason the output always gets printed to the terminal, regardless of whether I redirect it via 2> or > or |. Is there a way to get around this? Why is this happening?

Answer 1

add the -s (silent) option to remove the progress meter, then redirect stderr to stdout to get verbose output on the same fd as the response body

curl -vs google.com 2>&1 | less

Answer 2

Your URL probably has ampersands in it. I had this problem, too, and I realized that my URL was full of ampersands (from CGI variables being passed) and so everything was getting sent to background in a weird way and thus not redirecting properly. If you put quotes around the URL it will fix it.