[SOLVED] Upload data from stdin as a file with a specific name via cURL

Issue

I'm using curl -F file=@- http://etc/upload to upload some data I'm piping into cURL, and that's working fine, but I'd like to be able to specify the file name that's reported to the server.

Is that possible? How?

Solution

From the cURL man page:

-F/--form

...

You can [...] explicitly change the name field of an file upload part by setting filename=, like this:

curl -F "file=@localfile;filename=nameinpost"

So this is exactly what I wanted. E.g.:

$ echo funfunfun | curl -F file=@-;filename=fun.txt http://etc/upload

I swear I had read the man pages a couple times before asking, but hadn't found that particular paragraph until now.

Answered By - Gui Prá