Variables in wget post data

bash variables wget postdata
user1111098 picture user1111098 · Dec 22, 2011 · Viewed 89.5k times · Source

I am working on a simple bash script to download images from the website Tumblr. The idea is to use read to get login info from the user, and wget --post-data to log in, and this is what I have:

read -p "Tumblr login email: " EMAIL
read -p "Tumblr login password: " PASSWRD
wget --user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data 'email=$EMAIL&password=$PASSWRD' --no-check-certificate https://www.tumblr.com/login

However, it is sending "$EMAIL" and "$PASSWRD" instead of the strings for the variables, is there any way to get it to send values that have been inputted by the user?

Answer

kev picture kev · Dec 22, 2011

change:

--post-data 'email=$EMAIL&password=$PASSWRD'

to:

--post-data="email=$EMAIL&password=$PASSWRD"

bash manual about Quoting: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Quoting

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