Shell script that upload any kind of file to a web server and expect it to webserve the file at https://example.com/uploads/ - The script is made for OS X, as it copy the url to the pasteboard for later use. Main usage of this script is to quickly upload and share a file (image/video/json/etc.).

up.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Replace the following by your server configuration
UPLOAD_DIR_BASE=/var/www/example.com/uploads/
URLBASE=https://example.com/uploads/
SSH_SERVER=example.com


RAND=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 4 | head -n 1`
UPDIR=UPLOAD_DIR_BASE/$RAND
SCP="rsync --chmod=u+rw,g+r,o+r"

function mkremotedir() {
  ssh $SSH_SERVER mkdir $UPDIR
  if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
    echo "No luck: directory already exists on the server"
    exit 1
  fi
}

function upload_onefile() {
  filepath="$1"
  basename="`basename "$filepath"`"
  mkremotedir
  newname=`echo $basename|sed "s/ /_/g"`
  $SCP "$filepath" $SSH_SERVER:$UPDIR/"$newname"
  /bin/echo -n $URLBASE/$RAND/$newname | pbcopy -Prefer txt
  echo $URLBASE/$RAND/"$newname"
}

function upload_multi() {
  filepath=$1
  mkremotedir
  $SCP $@ $SSH_SERVER:$UPDIR/
  /bin/echo -n $URLBASE/$RAND/ | pbcopy -Prefer txt
  echo $URLBASE/$RAND/
}

if [ x == $2x ]; then
  upload_onefile "$1"
else
  upload_multi $@
fi