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1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 20:57:13 EDT musicman
   I keep on getting told this isn't valid JSON. Can someone tell what I am doing?
   
   generate_post_data()
   {
   cat << EOF
   {
   "client_id": "5cc312cee54277001312d232",
   "secret": "",
   "count": 500,
   "offset": 1
   }
   EOF
   }
   
   #while $x = $total
   # test of function call in curl
   curl -X POST https://sandbox.plaid.com/institutions/get -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data "(generate_post_data)"
   
   The actual error:
   {
   "display_message": null,
   "error_code": "INVALID_BODY",
   "error_message": "body could not be parsed as JSON",
   "error_type": "INVALID_REQUEST",
   "request_id": "WnnobVglKsKqYmZ",
   "suggested_action": null
   }
   1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 21:04:39 EDT musicman

      in reply to
      I did an inline EOF and that worked, but still curious why the above doesn't work