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How to copy text to a pastebin easily, and some other very useful tips.

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This command will copy text to a pastebin online using curl.

4.4 Mon Sep 16 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ echo "This is a message I want to save online." | curl -F file=@- https://0x0.st/

This would be an easy way to copy a system logfile to an online pastebin and then share it on a forum for example.

This is another way to accomplish this. Just run the command, enter your text and then press Control-D to save it to the online pastebin.

4.4 Mon Sep 16 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
Hello world.
http://ix.io/fqw

It could also be used like this to save text output from a program to an online source.

4.4 Mon Sep 16 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ps axu | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
http://ix.io/1Vl1

This is how to save the resulting URL in a file on your hard drive, for perusal later.

4.4 Mon Sep 16 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ps axu | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io 1> mynewfile
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 31874  100    18  100 31856      7  12651  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 12658

Doing it this way, there is no output to the terminal, good for a script, and the URL is still saved in the file. These tips would be very useful for saving text to an online pastebin, there are more options then just pastebin.com.


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