$ curl -Lw '%{http_code}' -s -o /dev/null -I SOME_URL
June 19, 2017, 11:15 p.m.
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Janos
Explanation
-w '%{http_code}'
is to print out the status code (the meat of this post)
-s
is to make curl
silent (suppress download progress stats output)
-o /dev/null
is to redirect all output to /dev/null
-I
is to fetch the headers only, no need for the page content
-L
is to follow redirects