How to upload file from linux to sharepoint site

Specific Errors and Solutions
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This article will focus on how to make connection to upload and download files to sharepoint site through linux shell script.
I tried using curl as below but I did not get output neither the file uploaded.
curl --ntlm --user username:password --upload-file myfile.xls https–://sharepointserver.com/sites/mysite/myfile.xls

thanks.

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Hi Ali,

The URL in your command seems malformed. https- (or https–) can not be part of a valid URL, or is that only a copy-paste error?

Also, try to run the command with the verbose argument, and please share the output, that may give some clues on what goes wrong.

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hi sadmann,

thank you very much.
we will try to use third party to upload files to Sharepoint site.

thank you

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Hi ali, does sharepoint work well for all type as of now?

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Hi guys,
Was this problem resolved? If yes then could you quote it

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No i have tried this but not working.
curl --ntlm --user mithlesh:mlsh@1723 --upload-file 1test.sh https:/sharepoint.com/sites/Release/1test.sh

Any solution to copy directly from linux server to sharepoint ?

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Has anybody actually manage to get this working with SharepointOnline(hereafter abbreviated to SPO)? I created an app on SPO, with appropriate permissions. I then created a script to retrieve the token from SPO, which works fine, but when trying to use the token to upload to SPO, I keep getting a 401 error, thinking I might have a error in my CURL command.

curl -i -H “Authorization: Bearer $(./get_access_token.sh)” -H “Accept: application/json;odata=verbose” --upload-file testfile destination(sorry seems new users cannot post urls)

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Hi Laurencew,

Does this curl command works if you don’t run the token retriever on the fly, but insert the token as plain text?

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Hi sandmann, the problem is the token changes every time you query it, so by the time I have copied it and inserted into the upload, the token is no longer valid, so need to do it on the fly

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Hi Laurencew,

This makes sense, because curl by default does not keeps the session, so from the server side the requests are distinct sessions, thus get distinct tokens. I would suggest digging a bit around curl’s session keeping, cookie handling and such. While that should work on most websites, I’m not sure about Sharepoint.