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Using cURL iterations and batches

I have a folder of files that I need to send to a webservice using cURL, but I'm not sure if all the variables and iterations are in batch files.

I know the syntax for curl should be

c:\curl\bin\curl -X POST -F File=@[filename] -F "title=[title]" -F "notes=[notes]" "http://xxx/AddScannedImage?debtref=[filename]"

but the% characters from the variables seem to end up in the url encoding

Any ideas?

TIA

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You should try with the -g

aka --globoff

cURL option .

Default behavior:

You can specify multiple URLs or portions of URLs by writing sets of parts in curly braces, as in:

http://site.{one,two,three}.com

or you can get alphanumeric series sequences using [], as in:

ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt
ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt    (with leading zeros)
ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt

Support for nested sequences is not currently supported, but you can use multiple ones next to each other:

http://any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html

You can specify any number of URLs on the command line. They will be selected sequentially in the order shown.

With curl 7.15.1, you can also specify a step counter for ranges, so that you can get every Nth number or letter:

http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt
http://www.letters.com/file[a-z:2].txt


You can even do:

    curl -T "img[1-1000].png" ftp://ftp.picturemania.com/upload/

But in your case, you really don't want that, so you should use a flag -g

so it doesn't make globes at all.

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The percent character ( %

) is a special character in Windows / DOS batch files. On the command line, you can use one %

. In a batch file, use two.



For example, if your url contains a space that is encoded as %20

, then you need %%20

.

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