bash: trouble getting file size from remote url

Question

I am trying to get file size of remote url in the following manner:

I am trying the below command:

curl -sI $url | grep -i content-length | cut -d ' ' -f 2

Its giving 17857797\C-M

I dont understand why \C-M is adding

I suspect your '\C-M' is Control-M or carriage return character. — Bjoern Rennhak, May 27 '18 at 14:14
The carriage return is "added" by [RFC 2616](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616), as each component of an HTTP response is *required* to end with a carriage-return/line-feed pair. — chepner, May 27 '18 at 14:20

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '18 at 14:40

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Append | dos2unix or | tr -d '\r' to remove carriage-return.

answered May 27 '18 at 14:40

Cyrus

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