On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Scott Haneda wrote:
>
>> THEDATA=`cat ~/Desktop/curly.txt`
>
>> curl http://pastie.caboo.se/pastes/create -H 'Expect:' -F 'paste[parser]=plaintext' -F "paste[body]=$THEDATA" -F 'paste[authorization]=burger' -s -L -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}'
>
> The data like that will no doubt fail depending on the file contents. I would instead suggest you tell curl to get the contents off the file. Like this:
>
> curl http://pastie.caboo.se/pastes/create -H 'Expect:' -F
> 'paste[parser]=plaintext' -F "paste[body]=<filename" -F
> 'paste[authorization]=burger' -s -L -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}'
>
> ... where 'filename' is ~/Desktop/curly.txt or suitable.

Thank you Daniel, that indeed did the trick. I am up and running.
Thanks again, I appreciate you taking the time to look at this.

If you have a spare second, could you tell me why sending the data in a variable would fail, but pushing it in via < works? I am not following what magic happens when taking the different approach.

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