Is it possible to have a bash alias this long?

Question

I was curious as to whether it would be possible to have an alias that allows me to just call this entire cURL except for the PrimaryKey which is input or piped to the alias?

For instance, I have to paste into terminal the following command (JSON), with the only difference being the Primary Key varying (PRIMARYKEY123):

curl 'https://example.com' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'DNT: 1' -H 'Origin: https://example.com' --data-binary '{"query":"{\n  getInfoById(Id: \"PRIMARYKEY123\") {\n    details {\n      images {\n        url\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}"}' --compressed

Would it be possible to have some sort of alias created where I can just enter the following into the command-line:

$ PRIMARYKEY123 | alias

Has anyone got any ideas on how I could achieve this or where I could start?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.

Thanks,

Stephen

The pipe executes the command `PRIMARYKEY123` and sends its output to the standard input of the `curl` command. That can't possibly be what you really want. — Barmar, Oct 07 '19 at 18:11
There is some danger to parameterizing your payload using parameter expansion; if it were JSON, I would have suggested using `jq` in my answer, but it appears to be something else (GraphQL?). — chepner, Oct 07 '19 at 18:13
@chepner thanks so much for your help - the output is piped into jq. GraphQL is correct :) — Stephen, Oct 07 '19 at 18:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '19 at 18:11

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Define a function:

my_curl () {
  curl 'https://example.com' \
       -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' \
       -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
       -H 'Accept: application/json' \
       -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'DNT: 1' \
       -H 'Origin: https://example.com' \
       --data-binary '{"query":"{\n  getInfoById(Id: \"$1\") {\n    details {\n      images {\n        url\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}"}' \
       --compressed
}

Then pass the primary key as an argument:

my_curl PRIMARYKEY123

answered Oct 07 '19 at 18:11

chepner

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Thank you so much but unfortunately, this doesn't work :( – Stephen Oct 07 '19 at 18:34
"Doesn't work" covers a lot of ground. What specifically is the problem? – chepner Oct 07 '19 at 18:53
I get a different output it errors out. I think you were right above about parameterizing the payload :S – Stephen Oct 07 '19 at 20:19

Is it possible to have a bash alias this long?

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