What is the cURL -s option?

Question

Here's an example:

curl -s acme:acmesecret@localhost:9999/uaa/oauth/token

It looks like it is used to specify that the URL contains the acme:acmesecret (authentication credentials) part?

Reference

As Charles pointed out, these types of questions are very easy to answer with explainshell. So if you ended up here you will probably have other similar questions and explainshell is the way to go.

Answer 1

It means silent. Here's an explainshell link. Plan on using that a lot in the future!