Using all files in a directory with curl?

Question

This is my script:

#!/bin/bash

curl -X POST -T /this/is/my/path/system.log https://whatever;

As you see, I am using a file called system.log. How can I do that for the complete /this/is/my/path/ path in a loop? There are about 50 files in /this/is/my/path/ which I want to use with curl.

Thanks!

"How can I do that for the complete /this/is/my/path/ path in a loop?" - I am not sure exactly what you mean. — Engineer2021, May 06 '14 at 12:15
Well, I mean, use the curl command on each file in that path. — user1856596, May 06 '14 at 12:16
possible duplicate of [How to iterate over files in directory with bash?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20796200/how-to-iterate-over-files-in-directory-with-bash) — Mat, May 06 '14 at 12:18

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '14 at 12:26

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You can upload multiple files using this range syntax in curl:

$ curl -u ftpuser:ftppass -T "{file1,file2}" ftp://ftp.testserver.com

answered May 06 '14 at 12:26

Engineer2021

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '14 at 21:51

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A very robust solution is to iterate through a for loop. Moreover you can take advantage of this and insert echo commands or delete, or whatever command you want.

#!/bin/bash

for file in /this/is/my/path/*
do
    curl -X POST -T "/this/is/my/path/$file" https://whatever;
done; # file

answered May 08 '14 at 21:51

Raul Luna

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Something like this could be made to work, but `$file` will probably include the whole path (at least on my OS) so you should not need to repeat the path when using the variable... Also, if there are any folders in the path, it is going to get complicated and probably fail. – beroe May 09 '14 at 02:44
Nice solution but $file carries the whole path, no need for the prefix! (bash 5, arch linux) – gyorgyabraham May 27 '20 at 11:43

Using all files in a directory with curl?

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