copyToDropbox.sh

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# Copyright (c) 2010 Sairam Kunala
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# README : 
# This program requires Dropbox, growlnotify and wget to be installed and is configured
# to be working on a Mac OS X . Also requires a bit.ly login and API key to shorten URL
# 
#

# You need to set your bitly login and API Key
bitlyLogin="bitlyapidemo"
bitlyApiKey="R_0da49e0a9118ff35f52f629d2d71bf07" # http://bit.ly/a/account
userId="0000000" # you need to change this

path="/misc" # You can set path as empty "" if you want it in your Public directory

filepath="/`echo $1| cut -f2- -d:|sed -e 's@:@/@g'`"

if [ -d "$filepath" ]
then
	filename="`echo $filepath|rev|cut -f2 -d'/'|rev`.tgz"
	/usr/bin/tar -cvzf "/tmp/$filename" "$filepath"
	mv "/tmp/$filename" ~/Dropbox/Public$path
else
	filename=`echo $filepath|rev|cut -f1 -d'/'|rev`
	cp "$filepath" ~/Dropbox/Public$path
fi

shortUrl=`/usr/local/bin/wget -O - "http://api.bit.ly/v3/shorten?login=$bitlyLogin&apiKey=$bitlyApiKey&format=txt&longUrl=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/$userId$path/$filename" 2>/dev/null`

echo $shortUrl

/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -a Dropbox.app -t "Copied to Dropbox" -m "Dropbox URL shortened and copied to Clipboard : $shortUrl" > /dev/null 2>&1