Simon Willison’s Weblog

18th December 2022

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TIL Start, test, then stop a localhost web server in a Bash script — I wanted to write a bash script that would start a Datasette server running, run a request against it using `curl`, then stop the server again.

Posted 18th December 2022 at 2:59 am

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