shell> curl -X PUT --data-binary @- --dump - http://localhost:8529/_api/tasks/sampleTask <<EOF { "id" : "SampleTask", "name" : "SampleTask", "command" : "(function(params) { require('internal').print(params); })(params)", "params" : { "foo" : "bar", "bar" : "foo" }, "period" : 2 } EOF HTTP/1.1 200 OK content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8 { "id" : "sampleTask", "name" : "SampleTask", "type" : "periodic", "period" : 2, "created" : 1466413154.324506, "command" : "(function(params) { require('internal').print(params); })(params)", "database" : "_system", "error" : false, "code" : 200 }