endreszabo / mkthrowie

A simple bash script that lets you 'drag-n-drop' files simply copypasting between terminals

mkthrowie

Introduction

mkthrowie.sh is simple bash script that lets you 'drag-n-drop' files simply copypasting between terminals.

It creates a gzipped and base64 encoded tar file to the stdout that you can copy to other hosts bash prompt to deploy the files given as arguments. I call this encoded tar as 'throwie'. mkthrowie makes a throwie of itself if no arguments are given.

Usage

$ ./mkthrowie.sh  
mkthrowie.sh version 0.02
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              vvvvvv--- copy throwie below ---vvvvvv
stty -echo;base64 -d<<_EOF|tar xzv;stty echo
H4sIAC9beVYCA+3STU/CQBAG4F7dXzFCQ9RkoXy0RoHExKAhUTASPUjQtHWVRuiStoB8/Xe3pRiMejHxQPI+l9nOTnc7k+YLw7eoH8ipJ/JhX/sXhnJsmipaRsUqb8VE0SiWtGLJKlsl06yYlqYyZtnQSNslaTO
fcUdk9wuO5xccO+wzdt+47TTbrbqRN4qMhSIiLsmXY18tGTtvX3Xq+kEYRTMKvbk4TDMLFe6uW51Tniw72ewRrVaMCbcvKbP9e9FEBKEnfdLTmzJpEf/NpoC+mCTUNrlyNKP0AnLEQE5Jpdf7m3eTD+bxuqraFF
aF+HOt9tRoXywjO6D3+aSalMQVGdbtkp4l/hqRQb0e5XK0YHuXD82bOj+huJ5zfzwUgedyOfVF/DySQWQ73sCL73HnL8RVkvQzWtLmwinp8WjYipbLPx9o/HRg2mTczs/Dekx8G5btyImIh7XezzANAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAB2zAfNJn0cACgAAA==
_EOF
              ^^^^^^--- copy throwie above ---^^^^^^

Xclip support

mkthrowie.sh will check if it can use a working xclip binary. If it can, it will pipe its output to xclip to copy it to the default clipboard. If xclip is not available it will print the base64ed output between 'cut' markers.