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I have a script which using a curl command to send a request to a web service, the output of the web service is written to a file.
The file is then moved to another location.

Instead of using a delay in the script (to wait for the completion of writing the output to a file) is there any way to identify whether the curl command has finished successfully and the output has been written to a file?

I want to avoid a scenario when I'm moving the file while information is still being written to it.

Appreciate your input

Why would you be using a delay, and why would you need to move the file?

Just write the file in the correct place to start with:

curl -o /path/to/correct/place/filename URL

Curl exits with a zero exit status if it terminates without error. You may use this fact to move the file into the correct location only when Curl is successful:

curl -o file URL && mv file /some/place

Or, if you need to do some error reporting:

if curl -o file URL; then
 mv file /some/place
 # or, to use sftp:
 # printf 'put filen' | sftp -b - user@host 
else
 printf 'Curl failed with error code "%d" (check the manual)n' "$?" >&2
 exit 1
fi

Use && for curl and mv command. in this case mv will execute only if previous curl command was executed successfully.

curl .... >to_file && mv to_file /to/dest

If you need to move file across sftp server, use below command.

sftp USER@HOST:/path/in/remote/dest <<< $'put /path/to/local/to_file'

Or even directly write in remote sftp path the FILE curl will output.

sftp USER@HOST:/path/in/remote/dest <<< $'put /path/to/local/"$(curl -o FILE URL)"'