Add cURL examples for Powershell & Command Prompt

[thispsj]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

Every REST API reference, the index of which is this.

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

All the examples of REST API endpoint requests.

We should consider some scenarios for Command Prompt & Windows Powershell/Powershell(multi-platform). I've highlighted them below :

• The line break symbols are different in Command Prompt & Powershell. While \ is for Unix shells, ^ and ` are the symbols for making line breaks in Command Prompt & Powershell respectively.
• Also warn the Windows Powershell users that curl is an alias for Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet in Windows Powershell. So they should type curl.exe instead of curl. For more information refer initialsession: remove curl and wget aliases PowerShell/PowerShell#1901.
• cURL comes bundled in Windows 10 build 1804 & later.
• Also show Command Prompt users how to use double quotes in JSON Request body correctly. An example :
  • Bash

        curl -X PUT https://api.github.com/repos/thispsj/thispsj/topics -d '{"names":["about-me"]}' 

  • Command Prompt

        curl -X PUT https://api.github.com/repos/thispsj/thispsj/topics -d "{\"names\":[\"about-me\"]}" 

• If possible add examples that use Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet of PowerShell.

Additional information

As seen in the above screenshot we could add a drop-down list at the marked area containing options : Unix, Command Prompt, Windows Powershell & Powershell. The user can then change the snippet using drop-down which fits best to their platform.

Can give some examples here on request.

[ramyaparimi]

@thispsj
Thanks so much for opening an issue! I'll triage this for the team to review 👀

[skedwards88]

Thank you for opening this issue! I linked to it from the REST feedback discussion so that it can be considered with that project.

[gracepark]

Thanks for the feedback! Since this is now linked to the feedback discussion I'll close this.