[SOLVED] How do you escape the redirection (<<) character in a JSON string contained in a cURL command?

How do you escape the redirection (<<) character in a JSON string contained in a cURL command?

I have a HTTP CRUD API that I am able to successfully send commands to. I'm using cURL from the command prompt on Windows 11.

However, when I send the redirection character, "<<", as part of a JSON string, I get an error.

Example cURL command:

curl -X "PUT" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"id\": \"b6481929-ec66\", \"dialogue\": \"<b> <<winks>>You are kewl </b>\"}" https://myfakeurl.xyz/items

The error:

<< was unexpected at this time.

Does anyone know how I can successfully escape the redirection characters (<<) in my JSON string within the cURL command?

I have tried using the Windows escape character ^ in the manner referenced in Escape angle brackets in a Windows command prompt

Update:

Using the ^ characters, here is modified JSON portion of the cURL command I entered:

 "{\"id\": \"b6481929-ec66\", \"dialogue\": \"^<^ b> ^<^<winks^>^> You are kewl ^<^/b>\"}"

And the error I received:

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

I have also tried the following variations on the << portion of the JSON string:

^<^<^winks^>^>

^<^^<^winks^>^>

I'm running Windows 11 Pro. The build version is 10.0.22631.3737.

Solution

This is a trivial answer and I agree to deletion if appropriate (e.g. to close as typo)

c:\temp>curl -X "PUT" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"id\": \"b6481929-ec66\", \"dialogue\": \"^<b^> ^<^<winks^>^>You are kewl ^</b^>\"}" https://httpbin.org/anything/anything
{
  "args": {},
  "data": "{\"id\": \"b6481929-ec66\", \"dialogue\": \"<b> <<winks>>You are kewl </b>\"}",
  "files": {},
  "form": {},
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Content-Length": "69",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "User-Agent": "curl/8.7.1",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-6684ef46-37d0b89965dd85fa60a3bed9"
  },
  "json": {
    "dialogue": "<b> <<winks>>You are kewl </b>",
    "id": "b6481929-ec66"
  },
  "method": "PUT",
  "origin": "REDACTED",
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/anything/anything"
}

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