How to pass current date to a curl query using shell script?

Question

I am inserting data to a elastic search using CURL, it works fine when i insert with a fixed data. I am trying to Get Current DateTime and assign to a variable and use with the

Answer 1

Inside your string, change

"CreateDate": "2015-01-01T15:23:42",

to

"CreateDate": "'"$(date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)"'",

There, I terminated the ' string and started a " string with the $(date) inside it. Otherwise, it would not get executed, but just passed to curl as a string.

You can also assign it to a variable beforehand and use it later like this:

now=$(date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)

...

"CreateDate": "'"$now"'",

Other problems

Change

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/nondomain_order/orders/'+$number+'' -d '{

into

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/nondomain_order/orders/'"$number" -d '{

Bash concatenation is just two strings one after another without a space between them. Otherwise, it would query URLS like http://localhost:9200/nondomain_order/orders/+0123456789+ instead of http://localhost:9200/nondomain_order/orders/0123456789

(Here, I protected the numbervariable against expansion with double quotes for safety if it ever changes)