Passing blob as argument from Command link

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Hey there,

I have a type as below
public type BlobRequest = {
** metadata : ?Blob;**
** };**

And function with the argument as below
public shared(msg) func getBlobData(request : BlobRequest)

How i can call “getBlobData” in command line

dfx canister call helloblob getBlobData

Thanks

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This should help:

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Someone mentioned using stdin to push the value in, because the command line is limited to one megabyte and if you’re trying to push in a 2 MB chunk you’re a bit out of luck. I don’t know Bash well enough to know how you could point your parameters input to a file.

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