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title: "💭 cURL Command Without Using Cache | Baeldung on Linux"
description: "!https://www.baeldung.com/linux/curl-without-cache#adding-the-pragma-http-header"
date: 2023-08-21
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  - cli
  - thought
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Busting cache with curl.  I'm not sure how much gets cached by curl, but I have ran into several cases where I am looking for new content and I want to ensure the content is new and no chance of being cached.

This article suggests 3 different techniques.

``` bash
curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store' http://www.example.com
curl -H 'Pragma: no-cache' http://www.example.com
curl http://www.example.com/?xyzzyspoon
```

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