Command-line file sharing • Hacker News Board

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by patrickdavey » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:34 PM UTC

Okke123 wrote: post #8

I would love to use this for my own files, without expiration etc. Do you have any plans to open source this?

It's quite heavyweight.. but I just installed https://owncloud.org/ on my own play VPS recently. Very happy with it so far. It's basically open source DropBox.

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by delinka » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:53 PM UTC

zyxley wrote: post #56

joelthelion wrote: post #35

How do you intend to make money?

Put in some text ads under the curl progress bar.

curl puts the data from the server on stdout, progress on stderr. what's the process for getting ads from the server to appear in curl progress?

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by nl5874 » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:01 PM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #58

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #45

My usual procedure goes something like this: rsync -P foobar.png personal.sircmpwn.com:/var/html/ # "hey dude, go download http://personal.sircmpwn.com/foobar.png"

I do this too, but I find it annoying not knowing if the file has been received and when it's safe for me to delete it.

Next version I'll add the possibility to add a timespan in number of days or number of downloads before deletion. What about that?

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by nl5874 » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:02 PM UTC

zyxley wrote: post #56

joelthelion wrote: post #35

How do you intend to make money?

Put in some text ads under the curl progress bar.

Haha, yes, was thinking about the same. Currently I'm just glad I can provide a useful service. There is no business case (yet).

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by nl5874 » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:04 PM UTC

daveloyall wrote: post #55

abcd_f wrote: post #50

This will be abused for hosting questionable things in no time, if it's not already.

These are the people behind transfer.sh: https://github.com/dutchcoders/ ...Based on some words I see on that page, I think they will anticipate abuse and roll with the punches.

Right you are! We will implement a page in between depending on the referer. Direct download users won't have any issues, but to prevent abuse the page will be shown if from an other site.

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by IgorPartola » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:06 PM UTC

hardwaresofton wrote: post #38

jonnyrockit wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://purrrl.link

http://configr.io

Which of all of these is the best? Which is most likely to still have my files after 5+ years?

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by nl5874 » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:15 PM UTC

coderholic wrote: post #44

nl5874 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Op here, good point. Will update the demo ;-)

How did you make the demo? I'd love to put something similar on http://ipinfo.io

Using tty2gif, I've made it work at my mac. Only need to find some time to upload the changes to the repo.

  http://z24.github.io/tty2gif/

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by unsignedint » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:16 PM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #58

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #45

My usual procedure goes something like this: rsync -P foobar.png personal.sircmpwn.com:/var/html/ # "hey dude, go download http://personal.sircmpwn.com/foobar.png"

I do this too, but I find it annoying not knowing if the file has been received and when it's safe for me to delete it.

I often do this and found that I often forget about it and it turns into a big mess of outdated file, so I periodically run a script in crontab that kills files older than a certain age. Works great for me.

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by aroch » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:27 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #43

ankushio wrote: post #9

I use CloudApp for OS X for sharing files and it's pretty convenient. The best part is sharing screenshots with it. You take a screenshot, it is automatically uploaded to the cloud (no pun intended) and the link is copied to your Clipboard. You could not ask for anything simpler.

I'm still looking for an app which does just that, just with my own server via scp / sftp and not dropbox or a third party service. It's so convenient once you got used to it. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8039708

I've used TinyGrab for this for quite some time: http://tinygrab.com/

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by nl5874 » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:56 PM UTC

Gonzih wrote: post #15

Is there a way to upload image without "attachment" in content disposition header?

Yes, this has been done because it was abused. We will make some smarter changes, which will allow removal of the content disposition header.