Curl to exapnd short url
Many times I receive short urls in mail and other places like chats and messages. I first like to see the destination before I click on the url. I was looking for some way to do this in bash. I realized that this could be very simply done by looking at the Location header in the response from curl.
Example
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and the output should be something like
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and if you would like to simplify this, then you can use the following
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and this will print only the final url.