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pastebin.ca perl script to upload files or clipboard content
One of the very first things I do, to a new persistant home install... is install the pastebin.ca perl script - paste2pastebin.pl
It makes life alot easier to paste an error message to someone who's trying to help me out. A collaboration tool.
Once you have it installed, say in /usr/local/bin/paste2pastebin.pl you can paste a file or an error message you got somewhere straight from the clipboard.
To paste a named file:
Code:
paste2pastebin.pl /path2/filename
To paste the contents of Klipper, make sure the hyphen is the last char of the cmdline, and then press shift-insert (or X's middle click. ) Ignore what Konsole shows you... it really did paste the whole thing... and then don't forget to hit Ctrl-D to end the input. You can even continue to type stuff on the bottom... after you pasted.
Code:
paste2pastebin.pl -
First get...
http://pastebin.ca/download/paste2pastebin.pl and save it to somewhere like /usr/local/bin.
Edit: pastebin.ca gave me an error when I used wget at that url... so here is the proper link to use when trying to get the script.
http://pastebin.ca Tools Section
You will probably also want to change it's permission to 755 and ownership to root. In a console...
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/paste2pastebin.pl
sudo chown -c root:root /usr/local/bin/paste2pastebin.pl
Now you'll also have to install a perl module, WWW/Mechanize.pm.
If you haven't installed any modules before... and that is likely with Knoppix...
sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
I accepted the defaults except for the -j3 line... which is for dual cores...
and I finally wound up at a perl prompt. Then
install WWW::Mechanize
install Getopt::Long
Edit:Not so fast... alot has changed since I posted this...
before you install any modules... it is best to upgrade cpan itself... with
Code:
install Bundle::CPAN
reload cpan
o conf commit
quit
... then restart it and make sure it doesn't complain.
perl -MCPAN -e shell
I did this as root, and selected "follow" for the dependancy option... and this time it worked. WWW::Mechanize was broken for a while... because some "test site", computers4sure.com changed their website around. Any problems you get... here is where to start looking or complaining
Google Code WWW::Mechanize bug list
Now in a console
lsmod | paste2pastebin.pl
returns... Your paste URL is: http://pastebin.ca/979356
Leaving a paste on a server forever is wasteful in my opinion... so
lsmod | paste2pastebin.pl --expiry="30 minutes"
is a quickie that expires in 30 minutes.
Which can also be any of these options...
Expiry options:
*/Never, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes,
1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours,
1 day, 2 days, 3 days,
1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks,
1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months,
1 year.
Since the script uses a default name of clueless... adding --name=yourname will give you an added bit of dignity.
I did it all by ading an alias in /etc/profile, but you could just edit the script itself.
alias p2pbin='paste2pastebin.pl --expiry='\''1 month'\'' --name=johnrw'
More details can be found on a similar post here:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/16545.html
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