How to pass current date to a curl query using shell script?

Question

I am inserting data to a elastic search using CURL, it works fine when i insert with a fixed data. I am trying to Get Current DateTime and assign to a variable and use with the

Answer 1

Rather than playing with quotes inside quotes I would suggest using here-doc to get rid of all magic quoting. Use your curl like this:

number=10
dt="$(date --iso-8601=seconds)"

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/nondomain_order/orders/'$number -d@- <