Using curl command in Windows prompt how to execute multi line command?

Question

We're attempting to run the following multi-line curl command in a Windows CMD window:

curl -H 'Authorization: Token <SERVER_TOKEN>' \
 -H 'Accept-Language: en_US' \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 'https://api.uber.com/v1.2/estimates/price?start_latitude=37.7752315&start_longitude=-122.418075&end_latitude=37.7752415&end_longitude=-122.518075'

When doing so, it appears to be treating each line of code separately.

Is there a way to pass a multi-line curl command in a Windows CMD window?

Backslash is used to escape or quote (some) things in Unix shells, and C, C++, other C-based (including awk) and Java programs, not in CMD. CMD allows quoting some things, including end-of-line, with ^ uparrow; use that. — dave_thompson_085
– dave_thompson_085, Commented Jan 17, 2019 at 3:04
@dave_thompson_085 Here is all their names Acute Accent (´), Breve (˘), Caron (ˇ), Cedilla (¸), Circumflex (ˆ), Diæresis / Umlaut (¨), Dialytika Tonos (΅), Dot Above (˙), Dot Below (̣), Double Acute Accent (˝), Grave Accent (```), Hook Above (̉̉), Macron (ˉ), Ring Above (˚), Tilde (˜), Tonos (΄), `). — catcat
– catcat, Commented Jan 17, 2019 at 3:50
This is the list for European languages and Vietnamese as they have your standard 5 vowels but with 6 modifiers = 30 vowels. The French gave them their written language. — catcat
– catcat, Commented Jan 17, 2019 at 4:08
@catcat: to someone who grew up with Teletype models 33 and 35, 0x5E will always be uparrow, but I'm willing to compromise on hat. It is definitely not caret; caret is under the baseline, not above x-height, and is U+2038 in Unicode but not in usual 'DOS' codepages at all. — dave_thompson_085
– dave_thompson_085, Commented Jan 17, 2019 at 23:52

Matthew Walk · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-17 03:03:57Z

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This worked:

curl "https://api.uber.com/v1.2/estimates/price?start_latitude=37.7752315&start_longitude=-122.418075&end_latitude=37.7752415&end_longitude=-122.518075" -H "Authorization: Token YNjXGKdc8AcnPGzGf-qFm2eFKGeG6RpOHLLgXLH-" -H "Accept-Language: en_US" -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Apparently, needed double quotes, not single quotes.

answered Jan 17, 2019 at 3:03

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