How do I interactively pass arguments to cURL from the shell?

Question

I want to create an alias to get a file using cURL which prompts for the:

• URL
• output path
• username and password of a proxy

How would I be able to do this interactively rather than hardcoding everything?

Answer 1

The following works as expected:

alias proxyget='read userid?"Userid: "; read passwd?"Password: "; read url?"URL: "; read local?"Local: "; curl -x 1.2.3.4:8080 -U $userid:$passwd  $url -o $local;'

References

• Using cURL to automate HTTP jobs

• curl - Manual

• read Man Page - Bash - SS64.com