How to Display curl request headers in cURL Command

To display curl request headers we need to use the -v option (verbose).

curl -v example.com

The cURL verbose option includes both request headers and response headers. Lines starting with ‘>’ are the request headers or header data sent by curl.

We can use the grep command to filter lines start with ‘>’ character and display only the curl request headers.

curl -v example.com 2>&1 | grep '^>'