How to send multiline data to curl from a script?

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2021-09-03 at 16:42 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> How do I handle the line breaks in the curl call to the php script so
> that the complete message will be read by the

If you just want to spread the curl command over multiple lines neatly
instead of having it all on one really long line you can do that by
terminating partial lines with backslashes:


    curl --data "this"      \
         --data "that"      \
         --data "the other" \
         [etc]

If you mean something else, then I don't understand the question :-)

This works for any long command. It's safest to continue lines at
whitespace, otherwise you will probably not get the results you expect.

Regards, K.

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