cURL for Windows: how can I send multiple line command in a console?

Question

I am learning to use cURL and I need to run this in a console:

curl -XGET localhost:9200/library/book/_search?pretty=true -d {     "query" : {         "query_string" : { "query" : "title:crime" }     } } 

But this is a multi-line command. How can I handle it to send a complete command?

Note that I understand I can put the content after -d in a file to run this command.

Answer 1

Sometime I have to use windows, try something like this :

curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/_search -d^ "{^     \"query\": {^         \"query_string\": {^             \"query\": \"year:2003\"^         }^     }^ }" 

^ to extend a command to next line and
\" to escape " on the json