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Reputation: 103

CURL: how to run a single curl command 100 times?

I have the following curl command: curl -i -H "Content-Type: text/plain" -X POST -d @hundredencoded http:///aaa/bbb/message

For load testing, i need to run this command 100 times, how do i do it using CURL?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 22334

Answers (2)

qwr
qwr

Reputation: 3670

You could achieve it by using the below script:

#!/bin/bash

for i in $(eval echo {1..$1})
do 
  curl -i -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' -X POST -d @hundredencoded http:///aaa/bbb/message &  
done

Upvotes: 16

David Raviv
David Raviv

Reputation: 397

Although the question specify using curl for this task, I would highly recommend using ab for this.

ab (Apache Benchmark) is a tool build specifically for the case in question. It allows you to call a specific request multiple times and also define concurrency. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

Your test would be:

ab -p post.txt -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' -n 100 -c 1 http://aaa/bbb/message

or, even shorter:

ab -p post.txt -T text/plain -n 100 -c 1 http://aaa/bbb/message

Where the file post.txt holds the POST data.

Upvotes: 10

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