How do I interactively pass arguments to cURL from the shell?

Question

I want to create an alias to get a file using cURL which prompts for the:

URL
output path
username and password of a proxy

How would I be able to do this interactively rather than hardcoding everything?

Paul Sweatte · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-31T15:00:03.477

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The following works as expected:

alias proxyget='read userid?"Userid: "; read passwd?"Password: "; read url?"URL: "; read local?"Local: "; curl -x 1.2.3.4:8080 -U $userid:$passwd  $url -o $local;'

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edited Jul 31 '18 at 15:00

answered Jan 17 '13 at 22:32

Paul Sweatte

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How do I interactively pass arguments to cURL from the shell?

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