Command-line file sharing • Hacker News Board

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

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by coderholic » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 3:38 PM UTC

nl5874 wrote: post #17

snorrah wrote: post #5

I like in the little example animation, hello.txt is uploaded and a url is returned, but then a completely different url is used to get the hello.txt back.

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

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 3:40 PM UTC

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"

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by hk__2 » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 3:55 PM UTC

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.

It also has a CLI app:

    $ cloudapp -d myfile.pdf  # upload the file and copy the link in your clipboard

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by Paul_S » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 4:09 PM UTC

I use woof: http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by antimora » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 4:13 PM UTC

I wish the URL could include a hash of the content so it could be used for verification for uploading and downloading the files. It could be handy for error checking and security checks.

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by mnarayan01 » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

hnha wrote: post #27

nl5874 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

make it not loop!

Or at least add a delay at the end. It's not super hard to figure out what must be going on, but really the only thing you have time to see is the first line.

Re: Command-line file sharing

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Post by abcd_f » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

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