Script to upload little stdout blurbs.

color-paste.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Script to take the output of commands and post them to a tmp web directory
# for easy sharing.  Requires python-ansi2html.
#
# Author: Ralph Bean <[email protected]>
# License: GPLv3+

# Edit the following three variables to suit your needs
WEB_USER=your_username
WEB_HOST=your_site.org
WEB_DIR=~/public_html
# ~/public_html/tmp needs to already exist on $WEB_HOST

echo "Creating file"
outfile=$(mktemp --suffix=.html)
ansi2html < /dev/stdin > $outfile
chmod o+r $outfile

echo "Uploading $outfile"
scp $outfile $WEB_USER@$WEB_HOST:$WEB_DIR$outfile

echo "Removing $outfile"
rm $outfile

echo
echo http://$WEB_HOST$outfile