How to send file contents as body entity using cURL
I believe you're looking for the @filename syntax, e.g.:
strip new lines
curl --data "@/path/to/filename" http://...keep new lines
curl --data-binary "@/path/to/filename" http://...curl will strip all newlines from the file. If you want to send the file with newlines intact, use --data-binary in place of --data
I know the question has been answered, but in my case I was trying to send the content of a text file to the Slack Webhook api and for some reason the above answer did not work. Anywho, this is what finally did the trick for me:
curl -X POST -H --silent --data-urlencode "payload={\"text\": \"$(cat file.txt | sed "s/\"/'/g")\"}" https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXX