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Re: [brain-storm] Can we make JSON posting easier?
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From: Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 06:41:53 -0600
On 2021-06-10, at 01:48:57, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> ...
> This makes it a quoting challenge. You can't use single-quotes around the whole thing as then the environment variables won't work etc. Not to mention what happens if the variable itself expands to something that contains a quote...!
>
> Can we introduce a way to make this easier for future curl users?
>
> Very basic example:
>
> curl -d "{string: \"$name\"}" $URL
>
I have a couple scripts in which I do something akin to:
curl "$( printf "Paste URL: " >&2; cat )"
... a desperate measure, and it doesn't address the
environment variable requirement.
-- gil
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Received on 2021-06-10
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 06:41:53 -0600
On 2021-06-10, at 01:48:57, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> ...
> This makes it a quoting challenge. You can't use single-quotes around the whole thing as then the environment variables won't work etc. Not to mention what happens if the variable itself expands to something that contains a quote...!
>
> Can we introduce a way to make this easier for future curl users?
>
> Very basic example:
>
> curl -d "{string: \"$name\"}" $URL
>
I have a couple scripts in which I do something akin to:
curl "$( printf "Paste URL: " >&2; cat )"
... a desperate measure, and it doesn't address the
environment variable requirement.
-- gil
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Received on 2021-06-10