1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: fail-early 5Help: Fail on first transfer error 6Added: 7.52.0 7Category: curl 8Multi: boolean 9Scope: global 10See-also: 11 - fail 12 - fail-with-body 13Example: 14 - --fail-early $URL https://two.example 15--- 16 17# `--fail-early` 18 19Fail and exit on the first detected transfer error. 20 21When curl is used to do multiple transfers on the command line, it attempts to 22operate on each given URL, one by one. By default, it ignores errors if there 23are more URLs given and the last URL's success determines the error code curl 24returns. Early failures are "hidden" by subsequent successful transfers. 25 26Using this option, curl instead returns an error on the first transfer that 27fails, independent of the amount of URLs that are given on the command 28line. This way, no transfer failures go undetected by scripts and similar. 29 30This option does not imply --fail, which causes transfers to fail due to the 31server's HTTP status code. You can combine the two options, however note --fail 32is not global and is therefore contained by --next. 33
