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Seeking help with a curl command in a bash script - SOLVED (lemmy.thewooskeys.com)
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I've got this command in a bash script:

TEST=$(curl -o /dev/null -s -k -w "%{http_code}" -u "${USERNAME}:${PASSWORD}" "${URL}/dashboard/")
echo "${TEST}" #debug

When the script runs, the output is "000".

When I run the same curl command from the shell, the output is "200" (which is correct, since the URL is valid).

I verified that the USERNAME, PASSWORD, and URL vars are being passed to the subshell.

I'd appreciate it if you could point out what I'm doing wrong here. :)

UPDATE: This has been solved.

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[-] rwdf@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Someone else suggested the env vars arent being expanded correctly inside the $(curl ...), which could be the culprit ... If a straight up URL works that would indicate that something like that is happening.

That said, I just tried setting an env var called URL="" and curling it, and curl said exit code 2, no URL specified, so something else is going on here.

[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 2 points 6 months ago

changing how I called ssh in the background made the difference (https://lemmy.thewooskeys.com/comment/521006).

Thanks for your time and assistance

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