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copied!<p>I want to upload a file automatically to rackspace files which requires an auth-token that is updated daily, so I want to create a script which gets the auth token and then uses that in the script to upload the file. </p> <p>This is the command to get the auth token which outputs the key perfectly:</p> <pre><code>curl -s -X POST https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens\ -d '{ "auth":{ "RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials":{ "username":"USER", "apiKey":"KEY" } } }'\ -H "Content-type: application/json" | python -mjson.tool |\ python -c 'import sys, json;\ print json.load(sys.stdin)[sys.argv[1]][sys.argv[2]][sys.argv[3]]'\ access token id </code></pre> <p>This is the command to upload the file:</p> <pre><code>curl -X PUT -T file.xml -D - \ -H "Content-Type: text/xml" \ -H "X-Auth-Token: TOKENGOESHERE" \ URL </code></pre> <p>I need to get the token from the first command into the TOKENGOESHERE place in the second command.</p> <p>What I have tried so far is: </p> <pre><code>token = curl -s -X POST https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens -d '{ "auth":{ "RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials":{ "username":"USER", "apiKey":"KEY" } } }' -H "Content-type: application/json" | python -mjson.tool | python -c 'import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)[sys.argv[1]][sys.argv[2]][sys.argv[3]]' access token id curl -X PUT -T file.xml -D - \ -H "Content-Type: text/xml" \ -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" \ URL </code></pre> <p>but it didn't work and I am guessing it has something to do with the quotes but I don't know enough about bash to know what the problem is.</p> <p>Thanks! </p>

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