curl -Lw '%{http_code}' -s -o /dev/null -I SOME_URL
-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