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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Curl not accepting spaces in script via variables Post 303038867 by say170 on Monday 16th of September 2019 06:29:17 AM
Old 09-16-2019
Curl not accepting spaces in script via variables
Hi All,


I'm trying to run a script which issues rest commands via curl to an endpoint. If I put spaces in fields via something like insomnia, it works, but when I try from an input file, it's failing with a json error.



Code:
while IFS=, read mname oname           <------ my input file is:    Test Name,New Name
do
#echo $mname
....

....


curl --request POST \
  --url http://192.168.0.1:1111/Service2/configuration/v1.0/Endpoint/ \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer '$token   \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --silent \
  --data '{
        -- "mName": "Test Name",                   <------with this line it works
        "mName": '\"$mname\"',             <-------with this line it fails

The output is

Code:
Test Name New Name

{"message":"JSON parse error","statusCode":400}

If I echo in from on curl, I get:


Code:
 --header content-type: application/json --silent --data {
       "mName": "Test Name",
        "oName": "New Name",

so it looks to be correct - just that without the echo, I get the error.



Any ideas?
 

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YPWHICH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						YPWHICH(1)

NAME

     ypwhich -- return hostname of YP server of map master

SYNOPSIS

     ypwhich [-d domain] [[-t] -m [mname] | host]
     ypwhich -x

DESCRIPTION

     The ypwhich utility tells which YP server supplies YP services to a client, or which is the master for a map.  If invoked without arguments,
     it gives the YP server for the local machine.  If host is specified, that machine is queried to find out which YP server it is using.

     The options are as follows:

     -d domain
	     Specify a domain other than the default domain.

     -t      Inhibit translation of map nicknames to their corresponding map names.

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SEE ALSO

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