How to use pastebin from shell script?
The documentation says that you need to submit a POST
request to
http://pastebin.com/api_public.php
and the only mandatory parameter is paste_code
, of type string is the paste that you want to make.
On success a new pastebin
URL will be returned.
You can easily do this from your bash shell using the command curl
.
curl
uses the -d
option to send the POST
data to the specified URL.
Demo:
This demo will create a new paste with the code:
printf("Hello..I am Codaddict");
From your shell:
$ curl -d 'paste_code=printf("Hello..I am Codaddict");' 'http://pastebin.com/api_public.php'http://pastebin.com/598VLDZp$
Now if you see the URL http://pastebin.com/598VLDZp, you'll see my paste :)
Alternatively you can do it using the wget
command which uses the option --post-data
to sent POST
values.
I've tried this command it works fine:
wget --post-data 'paste_code=printf("Hello..I am Codaddict");' 'http://pastebin.com/api_public.php'
Put the following in your .bashrc
:
sprunge() { if [[ $1 ]]; then curl -F 'sprunge=<-' "http://sprunge.us" <"$1" else curl -F 'sprunge=<-' "http://sprunge.us" fi}
...and then you can run:
sprunge filename # post file to sprunge
...or...
some_command | sprunge # pipe output to sprunge