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Yura Shinkarev
Asked: 2017-05-23 02:54:21 +0800 CST

Manual set parameters for POST-request over curl

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I have simple script. Script can be run with specific arguments. For example:

./my-script.sh --last-name=Smith --first-name=John

There is called curl and sended POST-request in script:

curl --data-urlencode last_name=$lastName --data-urlencode first_name=$firstName https://example.com

Where firstName and lastName are variables, that parsed from arguments.

Issue, that firstName or lastName (but not both) can be missed. If argument is missed, appropriate parameter do not sended to server.

But I do not know, how I can implement this logic in scripts.

Ofcouse, I can add if to check argument on null, but I can have much arguments in command line and in this case I will have tons of if...

bash

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Something like this: suppose

    arg1=myname
arg2=

    Then in order to include only non-empty parameters, code:

    command="curl "
if [ "$arg1" != "" ]; then
        command="$command --data-urlencode arg1=$arg1"
fi
if [ "$arg2" != "" ]; then
        command="$command --data-urlencode arg2=$arg2"
fi

echo $command

    You have one if statement for each variable.

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