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Snippets.sh

10.19.2006

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        //How to post code snippets from the command line (contributes are welcome!)

#(CC) Andrea Fiore,
# Creative Commons, by Attribution Share Alike 2.0
# http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
# and<AT>inventati.org 

#debug:
#set -x

#todo: 1.Add a proper password field
#      2.Add options: description, tag lists, snippet name as options 
#      3.improve options..
#      4.Add funky ansi colors

function help () {
	echo "Usage: "`basename $0`" -u <username> [-P, -D ]";
}
while getopts "u:p:PdhH" opt;
do
  case $opt in
  u ) user=$OPTARG;;
  p ) pass=$OPTARG ;;
  P ) private=1;;
  'h' | 'H' ) help ;;
  * ) help ;;
  esac
done

shift $(($OPTIND-1))

if [ -z $1 ]
then echo -e "What I am supposed to upload?\n missing filename... exiting"; exit 1 
fi
if [ -z $user ]
then 
    echo -e "How am I supposed to log-in without your user name?\n";help
    exit 1
fi
if [ -z $pass ]
    then read -p "password: " pass
    #how can I have a proper password field?
fi
if [ -z $1 ] 
   then echo "Missing file to upload; exiting";exit 1
fi
if [ -z $private ];then private=1 
fi

# get the autentication cookie and put it in the /tmp dir
curl -v -D /tmp/header -F "username=$user" -F "password=$pass" -l "http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/account/login" &> /dev/null
#grab the userid
userid=$(curl -b /tmp/header -l http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/ 2> /dev/null |grep -Eo 'post\[user_id\]\" value\=\"[0-9]{1,9}"' | sed -r 's/post\[user_id\]" value="([0-9]{1,9})"/\1/')

if [ $? = 1 ]
	then echo -e "autentication failture, or unable to get userid!\n Exiting"; exit 1
fi
#snip_cont=$(cat $1 | urlencode) 
read -p "snippet title: " snip_title
read -p "description: " snip_desc
read -p "tags:" tags

snip='//'${snip_desc}'code'`cat $1`'/code'#WARNIG: Code tags here are escaped... 
#echo -e $content
curl -b /tmp/header.txt -F "post[id]= " -F "post[user_id]=$userid" -F "post[title]=$snip_title" -F "post[content]=$snip" -F "post[tag_list]=$tags" -F "post[private]=1" http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/create/ &> /dev/null
#log-out
curl -b /tmp/header "http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/logout" &> /dev/null

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