Using curl with Multiline JSON Data

Send human readable JSON objects to curl without temp files or shell hacks.

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0:00 -- Intro
0:19 -- I'm using a local echo server if you want to follow along
0:37 -- Creating a demo script
0:56 -- A quick primer on the curl basics
1:53 -- Using single quotes has issues with variables
2:46 -- Using double quotes requires a lot of escaping
3:16 -- A slightly more complex example is hard to read on 1 line
4:38 -- You can pass a file to curl's data flag with an at symbol
5:45 -- Saving a multiline heredoc into a variable has a few caveats
7:51 -- Creating and passing a file to curl then deleting it
11:15 -- The solution, using a hyphen as a file with stdin
12:28 -- Optionally retaining new lines with JSON

[qamarkilani]

can we use echo ' ....' | curl