Long: fail-early Help: Fail on first transfer error, do not continue Added: 7.52.0 --- Fail and exit on the first detected transfer error. When curl is used to do multiple transfers on the command line, it will attempt to operate on each given URL, one by one. By default, it will ignore errors if there are more URLs given and the last URL's success will determine the error code curl returns. So early failures will be "hidden" by subsequent successful transfers. Using this option, curl will instead return an error on the first transfer that fails, independent of the amount of URLs that are given on the command line. This way, no transfer failures go undetected by scripts and similar. This option is global and does not need to be specified for each use of --next. This option does not imply --fail, which causes transfers to fail due to the server's HTTP status code. You can combine the two options, however note --fail is not global and is therefore contained by --next.