Piping curl to echo removes most text

Question

If I do:

$ curl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL | less

I see the contents of that Wikipedia page's html. But, if I do:

$ curl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL | echo

all I see is:

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
7 59808 7 4729 0 0 13793 0 0:00:04 --:--:-- 0:00:04 13787
curl: (23) Failed writing body (667 != 1300)

I tried using the solution from here, but after doing:

$ curl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL | tac | tac |echo

I see:

 % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 59808 100 59808 0 0 144k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 144k

Which is progress because there is no Failed writing body , but it still doesn't give me what I want (to echo the html of that Wikipedia page).

So, how can I echo the output of curl?

Answer 1

I think you mean to pipe into cat, not echo. echo doesn't take input from stdin. It only echos its arguments.