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prototype

Reputation: 7970

Use curl to post file from pipe

How might i take the output from a pipe and use curl to post that as a file?

E.g. the following workds

curl -F 'file=@data/test.csv' -F 'filename=test.csv' https://mydomain@apikey=secret

I'd like to get the file contents from a pipe instead but I can't quite figure out how to specify it as a file input. My first guess is -F 'file=@-' but that's not quite right.

cat data/test.csv | curl -F 'file=@-' -F 'filename=test.csv' https://mydomain@apikey=secret

(Here cat is just a substitute for a more complex sequence of events that would get the data)

Update The following works:

cat test/data/test.csv  | curl -XPOST  -H 'Content-Type:multipart/form-data' --form 'file=@-;filename=test.csv' $url

Upvotes: 1

Views: 542

Answers (1)

Daniel Stenberg
Daniel Stenberg

Reputation: 58004

If you add --trace-ascii - to the command line you'll see that curl already uses that Content-Type by default (and -XPOST doesn't help either). It was rather your fixed -F option that did the trick!

Upvotes: 1

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