Upload data from stdin as a file with a specific name via cURL

Question

I'm using curl -F file=@- http://etc/upload to upload some data I'm piping into cURL, and that's working fine, but I'd like to be able to specify the file name that's reported to the server.

Is that possible? How?

Answer 1

For protocols other than HTTP, and to use PUT for HTTP rather than form submission, use -T - with filename in URL:

echo bla-bla-bla | curl -T - ftp://user:[email protected]/foo.txt