How to use the curl command in PowerShell?

curl, jenkins, powershell

Solution

Use splatting.

$CurlArgument = '-u', 'xxx@gmail.com:yyyy',
                '-X', 'POST',
                'https://xxx.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories/abcd/efg/pull-requests/2229/comments',
                '--data', 'content=success'
$CURLEXE = 'C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\curl.exe'
& $CURLEXE @CurlArgument

Problem

Am using the `curl` command in PowerShell to post the comment in bit-bucket pull request page through a Jenkins job. I used the below PowerShell command to execute the `curl` command, but am getting the error mentioned below. Could anyone please help me on this to get it worked? ``` $CurlArgument="-u xxx@gmail.com:yyyy -X POST https://xxx.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories/abcd/efg/pull-requests/2229/comments --data content=success" $CURLEXE='C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\curl.exe' & $CURLEXE $CurlArgument ``` Error Details: ``` curl.exe : curl: no URL specified! At line:3 char:1 + & $CURLEXE $CurlArgument + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (curl: no URL specified!:String) [], RemoteException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information ```

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