Replacing a string with a variable in a cURL command [duplicate]
The var will not be evaluated because it's w/in single quotes. One way around this is to just smash 3 strings together:
curl -d '{"text" : "'"$var"'Your message here", "bot_id" : "this_is_a_secret_string"}' https://api.groupme.com/v3/bots/post- string 1:
'{"text" : "' - string 2:
"$var" - string 3:
'Your message here", "bot_id" : "this_is_a_secret_string"}'
NOTE: this will only work if the contents of var are very simple. The expanded string must still be a valid JSON string.