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 3) Post an event to the following endpoint using a curl command: 
 
 ```shell script
-curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" -d '{}'.
+curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" -d '{}'
 ```
 
 This command invokes the function running in the container image and returns a response.