phut

A command line interface to post, share and retrieve pastes using the https://paste.sr.ht API. phut is a POSIX shell script and has only been tested on Linux. It was specifically developed as a piece of my personal development environment (which uses Alpine Linux as a base).

Usage

phut [options] [FILE] ...
... | phut [options] [FILENAME]

By default, phut creates a new paste. Using the -d option will delete a paste, the -l option will list pastes, the -r option will print a paste blob/file to stdout and -s will save the paste blob/file in the current working directory.

Options

-p: Set visibility to private.

-u: Set visibility to unlisted.

-n: Don't attach FILE names to blobs.

-e: Encrypt FILEs with gpg.

-l: List all pastes (and attached blobs).

-r BLOB: Print BLOB to stdout.

-s PASTE: Save all blobs from PASTE in current directory.

-d PASTE: Delete PASTE (and all of the attached blobs/files).

-j: Output JSON.

-a: Output ASCII.

-A: Disable ANSI escapes.

-N: Disable Nerd Font (icons).

-q: Be less verbose.

-h: Show this help menu.

Create a paste

phut [-p|-u] [-n] [-e] [-j|-q] [-a|-N] [-A] <FILE ...>

Creating a new public paste doesn't require any options and the only arguments that it takes are the files to attach. The options -p or -u can be used to make the paste private or unlisted, respectively. By default, the basename of the file (without the directory) is used as the file name. Use the -n option to disable attaching the name to the file (the name will be null in the file listing). To encrypt (using gpg --armor --symmetric) use the -e option. On success, a file tree representing the paste and attached blobs is printed to stdout. Alternatively, the response can be displayed as the original JSON sent from paste.sr.ht by using the -j option. To print just the URLs of the blobs, use the -q option. The -q flag is useful here for quickly sharing files. The rest of the options -a (ascii output), -N (no nerd font) and -A (no ansi) are available to disable unicode in the UI, disable nerd fonts, or disable ANSI escape sequences (color, bold, italics).

# create a new public paste with three files/blobs attached
phut file1.txt file2.js file3.md

# create a new private paste with no name and encrypt with gpg
phut -pen file.txt

# create a new unlisted encrypted paste with a directory and display the URL
# only (compresses the directory first using tar and gzip)
phut -ueq directory

Delete a paste

phut -d [-a|-N] [-A] [-q] <PASTE>

To delete a PASTE and all of the attached blobs (files) use the -d option. The blobs attached to the paste can't be deleted individually, so the positional argument must be the SHA1 id of the paste. Only one paste can be deleted at a time. The options -a (ascii output), -A (no ansi), -N (no nerd font) and -q (quiet) can all be used with the -d (delete) option.

phut -d aaf4c61ddcc5e8a2dabede0f3b482cd9aea9434d

List pastes

phut -l [-p|-u] [-n] [-e] [-j|-q] [-a|-N] [-A]

Print the list of pastes to stdout. The options -p, -u, -n and -e act as filters to show only private, unlisted, null named or encrypted pastes. The -q option will print a newline separated list with a URL and filename for each blob. To get the original JSON response, use the -j option. The options -a (ascii output), -A (no ansi) and -N (no nerd font) are also available to adjust the output.

# print a tree representation of all pastes
phut -l

# print the JSON request filtered to show only private pastes
phut -ljp

Read blob (file)

phut -r <BLOB>

To print a blob (file) to stdout, use the -r option along with the SHA1 id of the blob (file) to print.

phut -r aaf4c61ddcc5e8a2dabede0f3b482cd9aea9434d

Save blob (file)

phut -s [-q] [-a|-N] [-A] <PASTE>

Save all the blobs (files) from the PASTE in the current working directory.

Tips & Tricks

Quickly share a file with a link

phut -q file.txt | xclip

Move file to new paste with a different filename

phut -r aaf4c61ddcc5e8a2dabede0f3b482cd9aea9434d | phut new-name

Decrypt an encrypted blob

phut -r aaf4c61ddcc5e8a2dabede0f3b482cd9aea9434d | gpg -q

Run a paste blob (file) as a shell script with[out] args

⚠️ WARNING

Running a script this way is dangerous if it doesn't belong to you. Even if it does, there is always a chance that it has been compromised.

phut -r dc2cb4d5ac2a8648cb28253eedd9696852389f0f | sh -s -- 2023 2027
phut -r 81580be9992b784cc3b94178dc7366eccec68b62 | sh