How can a Jenkins user authentication details be “passed” to a script which uses Jenkins API to create jobs?

Question

I have a script that delete and re-create jobs through curl HTTP-calls and I want to get rid of any hard-coded \"username:password\". E.g. curl -X POST $url --user use

Answer 1

This worked for me:

curl -u $username:$api_token -FSubmit=Build 'http:///job//buildWithParameters?environment='

API token can be obtained from Jenkins user configuration.