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Small addition: I'd put the URL in quotes and the variable between brackets:<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40695139-1">some_var=&quot;http://www.experts-exchange.com&quot;
curl ${some_var} -o output_file</code></pre>
(gets contents of this site and stores it in a file <b>output_file</b>)
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Small addition: I'd put the URL in quotes and the variable between brackets:


some_var="http://www.experts-exchange.com"
curl ${some_var} -o output_file

(gets contents of this site and stores it in a file output_file)

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I have link stored in a variable . can i pass that variable as url to curl
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I have link stored in a variable . can i pass that variable as url to curl

can i pass variable insted URL to curl in Bash?

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