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cli cURL send pinging with the method “weblogUpdates.ping”

From answer here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/36455/17948 The cURL command is: $ curl <target-pingservice-url> -d 'name=<your site name>' -d url=<your-url> -d rss=/rss.xml ...
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Read and confirm shell script before piping from curl to sh (curl -s [url] | sh)

Whenever I have to execute a shell script from the web curl -s [url] | sh, I first open url in my web browser to make sure the script isn't malicious and is safe to run. I remember seeing a command ...
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what does Curl's stand-alone hyphen (-) mean?

what's the stand-alone hyphen (between the -C & -O) stand for in this command? curl -C - -O http://www.intersil.com/content/dam/Intersil/documents/fn67/fn6742.pdf FWIW- I'm following a ...
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How to format a curl command for a special task?

There is a search page in a form http://site.com/search.php and it sends a search query via POST request. I want to fetch this request via curl command line tool to inspect a POST request. The HTML ...
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Success/fail tests for cURL (don't execute second line if first line fails)

According to Using "&&" is not effective for cURL submit form (don't execute second line if first line fails) In below code; first line is curl submit; second line is for ...
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Using “&&” is not effective for cURL submit form (don't execute second line if first line fails)

I'm submitting to my website using cURL. I make cURL post it in timely fashion. In below code; first line is curl submit; second line is for queuing: curl -b cookies.txt \ -d title="$(sed ...