Determining Whether HTTP File Exists

overbored · 05-22-2004, 12:38 AM

Is there a way to determine whether a file exists on an HTTP (or FTP) server from the command line? I thought that if any program could do this, wget would be it, but I haven't found any option for this. I'm looking for a program or script that can either return a code or write to stdout. Thanks in advance.

fibbi · 05-22-2004, 01:30 AM

if you know perl, look into the LWP module. It has pretty much everything, and can all be used in whatever kind of CLI program that you need.