Companion script for microbin server. Pipe everything to `pasta.sh` to quickly create pastas. The link will be returned to stdout.

pasta.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Set microbin server URL here
BASE_URL=xxxxxxxx

# Take expiration time as input and default to 10 minutes.
if [[ "$1" == "" ]]; then
    expiration=10min
else
    expiration=$1
fi

# Post everything from stdin to microbin and save resulting stored url.
pasta_url=$(cat /dev/stdin | curl -v -F expiration=$expiration -F content=@- $BASE_URL/upload 2>&1 | grep location | sed 's/^< location: \(.*\)$/\1/')

# Return full pasta url
echo $BASE_URL$pasta_url

Example: cat important_file | pasta.sh.

That's awesome! Thank you for that.