How to upload a file to FTP via curl but from stdin?

Question

Basically, I'm trying to do this:

some_other_program | curl ftp://username:password@192.168.1.10/file.txt

As a test case to see if I can get it working, I'm trying it with cat like so:

cat test.txt | curl -d @- ftp://admin:PASS@192.168.1.10/file.txt

Notice, I tried the -d @- thing, but it doesn't work. How do I do this?

This question is similar, but that one is about HTTP, my question is about FTP.

Possible duplicate of How to send a file to an FTP server that doesn't properly terminate the connection on success? — DopeGhoti, Jan 30 '17 at 16:51
Use -T - for ftp instead of -d @- which is just for http. — meuh, Jan 30 '17 at 17:24
That works thanks! Make it the answer and I'll mark it (why don't people just do that?) — 101010, Jan 30 '17 at 17:26

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 17 '19 at 13:59

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curl's -T accepts - to read from stdin.

The command reads like:

cat test.txt | curl -T - ftp://admin:PASS@192.168.1.10/file.txt

Here's an example used to upload a file to Vimeo directly:

gsutil cp gs://my-bucket/video.mp4 - | curl -T - ftp://user:PASS@ftp-3.cloud.vimeo.com/video.mp4

edited Sep 17 '19 at 13:59

bahamat

answered Jun 30 '19 at 09:26

urish

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