LELevitating·Sep 1, 2024
Similar to https://termbin.com which runs https://github.com/solusipse/fiche.
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solusipse / fiche
fiche
Command line pastebin for sharing terminal output.
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Command line pastebin for sharing terminal output.
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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7 sourcesFiche – Command line pastebin for sharing terminal output
2 points · Open discussionI used to self-host transfer.sh, but nowadays I just use WebDAV.
1. it's easy to get WebDAV running, most of HTTP server support it through modules. or you could run it with rclone, on non-standard port or behind a reverse proxy
2. I don't share upload access with others, it's only for my own use. and this way I don't need to deal with huge uploads or illegal contents.
3. I could also just curl it, the uploaded content will have proper mime types. It's convenient for me to share pictures and videos this way on Telegram because it generate previews for me, and it's easy to just copy-paste a link to send to more than one person.
curl https://user:password@domain.tld:port/path/to/file.png -T file.png
4. I could use WebDAV for various other cases, such like keeweb instance, Orgzly (android) notes syncing, saving keepass database etc.
Could
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write a simple shell script to include random characters in the URL, copy url to clipboard etc, such like this one I wrote [1]
btw for plain text, I prefer to use fiche [2] a simple netcat based pastebin. I have a public fiche instance [3] which allow people to upload with bash/zsh/netcat and show webpage with syntax highlighting. Text usually consume very a few of storage and not that "sensitive" like some photos and videos could be, so it's less troublesome to provide a public service for that. I've also write a Telegram bot for easily upload to my pastebin.
Lifespan of my WebDAV uploads and pastes are 1 month, it's very easy to clean them with crontab
@daily find ~/webdav/tmp -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ctime +30 -delete
[1] https://ezup.dev/git/dotfiles/file/.local/bin/eztmp.html
[2] https://github.com/solusipse/fiche
[3] https://ezup.dev/p/
IRC is simple and efficient. It's a real pleasure for me to use it daily to talk to my fellow programmers. Yeah we don't have images but we have links and a pastebin (https://github.com/solusipse/fiche) to replace that.
I'm on #dailyprog at irc.rizon.net (https://dailyprog.org/). It's an irc-based programming community. We also share a server with ssh access.
We do small programming projects together. At the moment the idea is to make an exhausive list of all existing IRC servers with massscan and nmap (the output of the running massscan instance: https://dailyprog.org/~mabynogy/irc-servers.txt).
In IRC turns thirtyFiche is another solution, based on netcat (nc):
https://github.com/solusipse/fiche
In Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line> Just wondering, is the owner related to the manager of the server software behind it? https://github.com/solusipse/fiche
I have no affiliation with Termbin/Fiche, but yes I believe it's the same person.
> Is there a size limit of pastes?
I don't know, but it says that pastes are deleted after a month.
In TermbinJust wondering, is the owner related to the manager of the server software behind it? https://github.com/solusipse/fiche
Is there a size limit of pastes? I actually prefer hard limits for some web services since it shows that the project is sustainable in the long term.
I also like the trend of using low level TCP tools like netcat to interact with web services, since it forces them to use the "trivial protocol" over TCP and avoids installing random API-specific software on your machine.
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