WEBDAV via bash

WEBDAV via bash

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is extension of HTTP. Thus HTTP requests can be used in order to GET or PUT file. Prerequisite: install curl using your OS package manager yum install curl or apt-get install curl. cURL is command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols available as standard package in most OS.

Bash script to UPLOAD file to the webdav URL (note PUT request may not be allowed by generic web site or may need further authentication)

curl -X PUT [updirurl+filename] --data "any text content"

Bash script to DOWNLOAD file from the webdav URL

curl [updirurl+filename] --data "any text content"

Download full sample script

Written on May 9, 2018