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Ix – Command-line pastebin

36 points by ca98am79 11y ago

VikingCoder 11y ago
Many machines on Ix.
KevinKorb 11y ago
Just install wgetpaste. It is a lot easier and supports multiple services.
halosghost 11y ago
I'd recommend pb <https://github.com/ptpb/pb> https://github.com/ptpb/pb>. It is free and open-source (so you can easily host your own deployment of it—it's even in the AUR for Arch users: <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pb-git/> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pb-git/>), provides a ton of features that no other pastebin offers and provides most (if not all) of the features provided by other common cli-accessible pastebins (like ix and sprunge). You can find the reference deployment at <https://ptpb.pw> https://ptpb.pw>.
- finnn 11y ago
  Nice, reference deployment even supports https
  - halosghost 11y ago
    Even better than that; it only serves over https. :D
- coherentpony 11y ago
  Link broken. Here's a working one: https://github.com/ptpb/pb https://github.com/ptpb/pb
  - halosghost 11y ago
    Actually, the link is just fine; it appears that you have discovered a bug in HN's URL matching algorithm. < and > are explicitly recommended by the URI RFC [1] as delimiters for URLs. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-C https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-C
davexunit 11y ago
I didn't see a link for source code. How does one self-host this?
- halosghost 11y ago
  You don't. Ix is not Open-source. Sprunge (an alternative) is, but I never found it to be very simple. This is one of the things I so love about pb (see my other comment ITT).
  - davexunit 11y ago
    > Ix is not Open-source Surprising that a tool with a CLI focus and a home page that looks like a man page is non-free. Oh well. Thanks. pb looks cool, though the node dependency makes it much more heavyweight than I think it intends.
    - halosghost 11y ago
      Give a shout-out to the Author(s). They are quite responsive. One of them is on the verge of rewriting pb overall to leverage some nicer things that have been created since pb's creation along with making it even faster (despite the fact that, ime, it is already faster than most other pastebins (in the US)).
    - halosghost 11y ago
      On closer look, it seems node is a makedep, not a runtime dep.
      - davexunit 11y ago
        So I still need it in order to build it. People tend to forget that other people might want to build their software to package it for a distro, and would even like to run the test suite, and they use crazy amounts of build time dependencies that make it hard to do.
wgx 11y ago
http://ix.io/user/ http://ix.io/user/ (shows the last 100 anonymous posts) was quite entertaining when I tried it just now.
LukeHoersten 11y ago
This is such a cool project as a whole. The domain, the simplicity of the project (curl wrapper), the fact that the homepage is basically a man page, the simple auth. It's just an awesome concept and really well done.

36 points by ca98am79 11y ago

VikingCoder 11y ago

Many machines on Ix.

KevinKorb 11y ago

Just install wgetpaste. It is a lot easier and supports multiple services.

halosghost 11y ago

I'd recommend pb <https://github.com/ptpb/pb> https://github.com/ptpb/pb>. It is free and open-source (so you can easily host your own deployment of it—it's even in the AUR for Arch users: <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pb-git/> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pb-git/>), provides a ton of features that no other pastebin offers and provides most (if not all) of the features provided by other common cli-accessible pastebins (like ix and sprunge). You can find the reference deployment at <https://ptpb.pw> https://ptpb.pw>.

finnn 11y ago
Nice, reference deployment even supports https
- halosghost 11y ago
  Even better than that; it only serves over https. :D
coherentpony 11y ago
Link broken. Here's a working one: https://github.com/ptpb/pb https://github.com/ptpb/pb
- halosghost 11y ago
  Actually, the link is just fine; it appears that you have discovered a bug in HN's URL matching algorithm. < and > are explicitly recommended by the URI RFC [1] as delimiters for URLs. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-C https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-C

davexunit 11y ago

I didn't see a link for source code. How does one self-host this?

halosghost 11y ago
You don't. Ix is not Open-source. Sprunge (an alternative) is, but I never found it to be very simple. This is one of the things I so love about pb (see my other comment ITT).
- davexunit 11y ago
  > Ix is not Open-source Surprising that a tool with a CLI focus and a home page that looks like a man page is non-free. Oh well. Thanks. pb looks cool, though the node dependency makes it much more heavyweight than I think it intends.
  - halosghost 11y ago
    Give a shout-out to the Author(s). They are quite responsive. One of them is on the verge of rewriting pb overall to leverage some nicer things that have been created since pb's creation along with making it even faster (despite the fact that, ime, it is already faster than most other pastebins (in the US)).
  - halosghost 11y ago
    On closer look, it seems node is a makedep, not a runtime dep.
    - davexunit 11y ago
      So I still need it in order to build it. People tend to forget that other people might want to build their software to package it for a distro, and would even like to run the test suite, and they use crazy amounts of build time dependencies that make it hard to do.

wgx 11y ago

http://ix.io/user/ http://ix.io/user/ (shows the last 100 anonymous posts) was quite entertaining when I tried it just now.

LukeHoersten 11y ago

This is such a cool project as a whole. The domain, the simplicity of the project (curl wrapper), the fact that the homepage is basically a man page, the simple auth. It's just an awesome concept and really well done.