Does an echo to network command exist in debian?

Question

Does some sort of command like:

echotonet "this"

or

cat file.txt > echonet

that could allow one to easily paste text document data to a service like paste.debian.net ?

I often use paste.debian.net in order to retrieve on some machines pieces of scripts too long to be written in shell and edited in a visual environment like windows or ubuntu.

I download them with a classic wget:

wget -O namefile.sh https://paste.debian.net/some_path_to_the_paste_in_raw_format

Very often, however, there's the need to retrieve data too, like for debugging purposes or when I have to paste lot of log lines on here or on boards.

A easy to post command that upload a full txt file or zip a directory and gives back a short url would be gold.

To my mind the wetransfer command could be maybe a solution but maybe there are other options like a proper debian package for it.

Answer 1

I mean, for your mentioned paste.debian.net, there's several clients linked to from the website.

The debian repos carry pastebinit, which you can use, it's nice enough. I typically don't care enough to install it; what it does is "small" enough that curl does it well enough;

curl -F file=@myfile https://0x0.st

to upload myfile, or command | curl -F file=@- https://0x0.st to upload the output of command.

Of course, if you need that more often, adding the following to your .bashrc or .zshrc (depending on which shell you use) would give you convenient tool:

function share() {
  if [[ $# -eq 1 ]]; then
    local output="$(curl --progress-bar -F "file=@$1" https://0x0.st)/$(basename "$1")"
  else
    local output="$(curl --progress-bar -F "file=@-" https://0x0.st)/stdout"
  fi

  # check whether we run in a terminal and whether we have the qrencode tool
  if [[ -t 1 ]] && command -v qrencode >/dev/null; then
    # show QR code
    qrencode -t ANSIUTF8 "${output}"
  fi

  printf "%s\n" "${output}"
}

Note that you might simply use scp to copy your files of interest to an SSH server under your control; or put them on a cloud file bucket; there's many low-cost providers. Not all logs and files are safe to be publicly uploaded!