Command line tool for dpaste

There are lots of snippet hosts sites that are good for sharing in chats. I like dpaste because its interface is simple and effective even if it doesn't have an official API. I wrote this tool to help use it from the command line. Here is an easy way for you to get it:

cd ~/bin #assuming you have a personal bin folder in your $PATH
curl -o dpaste http://dpaste.com/92000/plain/
chmod +s dpaste

If you look at the title for that dpaste "paste" you'll see an example of how to use it:

There are a lot of really cool things happening there.

• The tool published itself


• It used my OS username


• It captured the entire command line for the title


• The command included a Unix pipe


• The command included process substitution

And to top it all off I landed a really cool, rounded paste number (92000).

Just in case that paste disappears I will also place a copy of the code here:

# In order for the default title to capture the complete command, a shebang (#!) must not be used
usage(){
cat < < EOF
dpaste - a command line tool for posting to dpaste.com
Usage:  
    dpaste [-h] [-l language] [-t title|-u] [-p poster|-a] [file]

Summary:
    dpaste accepts a stdin pipe and posts the content to http://dpaste.com
    with the command (complete with pipes) as the title and your username as
    the name.  If you pass a file it will be sent instead of stdin and the
    filename will be used as the title. The following flags are available:
        -h
        -H      Hold until nobody has looked at it for 180 days.
        -l language
                Specify: Python|PythonConsole|Sql|DjangoTemplate|JScript|
                         Css|Xml|Diff|Ruby|Rhtml|Haskell|Apache|Bash
        -t title
                Override the default title.
        -u      Paste untitled.
        -p poster
                Override the default Name/Email.
        -a      Paste anonymously.
        --      Denote the end of flags. Needed if filename starts with a "-".

Acknowledgments:
    Copyright (c) 2008 Richard Bronosky
    Offered under the terms of the MIT License.
    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
    Created while employed by Atlanta Journal-Constitution
EOF
}

title=$(history|tail -n1|tr "\t" "#"|sed "s/[^#]*#//")
poster=$(id -un);

while [[ $1 == -* ]]; do
    case "$1" in
        -h|--help|-\?) usage; exit 0;;
        -H) hold="-F hold=on"; shift;;
        -l) language=$2; shift 2;;
        -t) title=$2; shift 2;;
        -u) unset title; shift;;
        -p) poster=$2; shift 2;;
        -a) unset poster; shift;;
        --) shift; break;;
    esac
done

if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
    content=$1
    title=$1
else
    content=/dev/stdin
fi

url=$(curl -s -L -o /dev/null -w "%{url_effective}" \
    -F "content=<$content" \
    -F "language=$language" \
    -F "title=$title" \
    -F "poster=$poster" \
    $hold http://dpaste.com
)

# copy the url to the clipboard if you are using a Mac
$(which pbcopy > /dev/null 2>1) && echo -n "$url" | pbcopy
echo "$url"

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