Error about 'invalid JSON' with couchDB view but the json's fine

Question

I am trying to setup the following view on CouchDB

{
\"_id\":\"_design/id\",
\"_rev\":\"1-9be2e55e05ac368da3047841f301203d\",
\"language\":\"javascript\",
    \"         


        

Answer 1

@titanoba hinted at the problem:

The -d option of curl expects the actual data as the argument!

If you want to provide the data in a file, you need to prefix it with @:

curl -X PUT -d @keys.json  $CDB/_design/id