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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yes, that’s it! Thanks guys! Got it working now </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk [mailto:dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>azmodie<br><b>Sent:</b> 31 March 2011 12:33<br><b>To:</b> Tayside Linux User Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [dundee] Help with Bash Shell<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>for curl </span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>curl –X PUT http://couchdb:port/db </span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"-d @filename" reads the post from a given file name, and "-d @-" reads the </span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><span class=apple-style-span>post data from stdin! </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>azmodie<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 31 March 2011 12:26, Rick Moynihan <<a href="mailto:rick.moynihan@gmail.com">rick.moynihan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I suspect you might be surpassing the maximum commandline argument limit.<br><br>You might want to look at piping stdin directly into to curl... I<br>think it takes a - argument that'll do this.<br><br>R.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 31 March 2011 10:40, Gary Short <<a href="mailto:gary@garyshort.org">gary@garyshort.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Yeah works here too, if I input a short line. The JSON lines are looong,<br>> that's why I thought maybe some buffer issue or something. Anyhoo, that<br>> didn't work either, sorry, though it did put the single quote in exactly the<br>> same place near the end of the line. I've messed around with this long<br>> enough, I'm going to try python now I think. Shame Bash didn't work as it<br>> would have been a nice, short, simple solution.<br>><br>> Thanks for your help.<br>><br>> Gary<br>><br>>> -----Original Message-----<br>>> From: <a href="mailto:dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dundee-">dundee-</a><br>>> <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.lug.org.uk">bounces@lists.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Robert Ladyman<br>>> Sent: 31 March 2011 10:33<br>>> To: Tayside Linux User Group<br>>> Subject: Re: [dundee] Help with Bash Shell<br>>><br>>> Err...well, it works here (as the old saying goes): I suspect that<br>>> something<br>>> in the data is being interpreted as a bash command.<br>>><br>>> Try<br>>><br>>> echo \'$data\'<br>>><br>>> (that's slash-quote)<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> > Weird, Bash inserts the single quote near the end of the string. It's<br>>> like<br>>> > $data isn't all there when the quote is added and then the rest of it<br>>> > "catches up". Tried putting in a sleep 1, but that made no difference<br>>> so I<br>>> > don't think it's a timing issue. Tried saving $data locally first so<br>>> as to<br>>> > try and flush any buffer, didn't work either. Weird. Linux sucks. ;-)<br>>> ><br>>> > > -----Original Message-----<br>>> > > From: <a href="mailto:dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dundee-">dundee-</a><br>>> > > <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.lug.org.uk">bounces@lists.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of 'Gary Short'<br>>> > > Sent: 31 March 2011 09:38<br>>> > > To: 'Tayside Linux User Group'<br>>> > > Subject: Re: [dundee] Help with Bash Shell<br>>> > ><br>>> > > Thanks Robert,<br>>> > ><br>>> > > And that nearly works too! :-)<br>>> > ><br>>> > > Echoing "'$data'" (to see what gets sent to couchdb) gives me<br>>> > ><br>>> > > '{"key":"value" ... }<br>>> > ><br>>> > > Note, no single quote at the end, no idea why Bash doesn't append<br>>> it,<br>>> > > it's<br>>> > > there in the code, but of course, without it, Couchdb returns "bad<br>>> > > JSON".<br>>> > ><br>>> > > Sigh... may have to break out Python<br>>> > ><br>>> > > Thanks for your help<br>>> > ><br>>> > > Cheers,<br>>> > > Gary<br>>> > ><br>>> > > > -----Original Message-----<br>>> > > > From: <a href="mailto:dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dundee-">dundee-</a><br>>> > > > <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.lug.org.uk">bounces@lists.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Robert Ladyman<br>>> > > > Sent: 31 March 2011 05:09<br>>> > > > To: Tayside Linux User Group<br>>> > > > Subject: Re: [dundee] Help with Bash Shell<br>>> > > ><br>>> > > > Whoops - that should be:<br>>> > > > QUOTED_DATA="'$data'"<br>>> > > ><br>>> > > > although the echo would work<br>>> > > ><br>>> > > > > if that fails, use the echo trick above and put the result into<br>>> a<br>>> > ><br>>> > > new<br>>> > ><br>>> > > > > variable<br>>> > > > ><br>>> > > > > QUOTED_DATA=`echo "'$data'"`<br>>> > > > ><br>>> > > > > note the back-ticks around the right-hand statement<br>>> > > ><br>>> > > > --<br>>> > > > Robert Ladyman<br>>> > > > File-Away Limited<br>>> > > > 3 Ralston Business Centre, Newtyle, Blairgowrie<br>>> > > > Perthshire PH12 8TL SCOTLAND<br>>> > > > Tel: +44 (0) 1828 898 158<br>>> > > > Mobile: +44 (0) 7732 771 649<br>>> > > > <a href="http://www.file-away.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.file-away.co.uk</a><br>>> > > ><br>>> > > > ============================================<br>>> > > > Registered Office: 32 Church Street, Newtyle, Blairgowrie<br>>> > > > Perthshire, PH12 8TZ SCOTLAND<br>>> > > > Registered in Scotland, Company Number SC222086<br>>> > > ><br>>> > > ><br>>> > > > _______________________________________________<br>>> > > > dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>>> > > > <a href="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee@lists.lug.org.uk</a> <a href="http://dundeelug.org.uk" target="_blank">http://dundeelug.org.uk</a><br>>> > > > <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee</a><br>>> > > > Chat on IRC, #tlug on <a href="http://irc.lug.org.uk" 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