Show HN: Sharing, command-line tool to share files with your phone

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Post by parvardegr » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 12:33 PM UTC

Sharing is a command-line tool to share directory and files with ios and android devices without an extra client app

Show HN: Sharing, command-line tool to share files with your phone
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Post by ohadron » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 1:03 PM UTC

Really cool. One of my favorite things about iOS+MacOS is the ability to copy/paste between devices, but I can think of a bunch of use cases where this would be even better.

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Post by icy » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 1:28 PM UTC

Tailscale’s Taildrop (https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop/) has completely solved this problem for me.

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Post by bbkane » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 1:31 PM UTC

Nice! I used to do something similar with:

   python -m http.server

And a dns -> http record Namecheap which sent traffic from books.bbkane.com to http://localhost:5000

Re: Show HN: Sharing, command-line tool to share files with your phone

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Post by jcynix » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 1:45 PM UTC

Ok, nice idea with the qrcode, but (as far I can tell from a quick view into the source) it uses plain http?

On Android I'm happy with the apps I use anyway, e.g. Termux which offers ssh (both client and server), rsync, … or sftp via Solid Explorer.

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Post by w4rh4wk5 » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 1:48 PM UTC

jcynix wrote: post #5

Ok, nice idea with the qrcode, but (as far I can tell from a quick view into the source) it uses plain http? On Android I'm happy with the apps I use anyway, e.g. Termux which offers ssh (both client and server), rsync, … or sftp via Solid Explorer.

Can you configure to the ssh server to start automatically, or do you have to launch Termux and start it manually after a reboot?

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Post by jamps » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 1:49 PM UTC

Pretty cool and lightweight! I use KDE connect that allows me to have communication both ways.

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Post by prettyStandard » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 1:50 PM UTC

Pretty happy with resilio sync...

Wait... all commits were 2 hours ago?

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Post by jcynix » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 1:59 PM UTC

w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #6

jcynix wrote: post #5

Ok, nice idea with the qrcode, but (as far I can tell from a quick view into the source) it uses plain http? On Android I'm happy with the apps I use anyway, e.g. Termux which offers ssh (both client and server), rsync, … or sftp via Solid Explorer.

Can you configure to the ssh server to start automatically, or do you have to launch Termux and start it manually after a reboot?

I can execute Termux scripts at boot time (via a secondary app Termux:Boot), which would execute files in ~/.termux/boot/so yes. And you have your standard shell init files, so just opening Termux allows you to implement actions.

Re: Show HN: Sharing, command-line tool to share files with your phone

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Post by treespace8 » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 2:02 PM UTC

For only text I use https://cl1p.net, basic but works everywhere.