Drop.io Shell Script

drop.sh

#!/bin/bash

#I am not a bash scripter, this is my feeble attempt to create
#a drop.io cli uploader by cobbling together various ideas found
#on the internet. Perhaps someone will see this and say, "Silly
#bash script n00b, I'll show you how it's done." 
#
#That's fine by me.

drop()
{
FILE=$1
DROPNAME=$2
curl -F version=1.0 -F api_key=$APIKEY -F drop_name=$DROPNAME -F "file=@$FILE" http://assets.drop.io/upload
}

APIKEY="XXXXXXXXXXXXX"
arg2=$1
shift
while [[ "$1" != "" ]] ; do
        drop $1 $arg2
        shift
done

Hi, this is Eric from drop.io. I saw this gist in a tweet listed as a way to create assets during our downtime.

We're currently doing some unplanned maintenance on our database. While the site is down, there may be some API methods that still appear to work, but files created during this time may not be there after the database restore. Sorry for the inconvenience, and we'll have the site and API back up as quickly as possible!

Sorry, wasn't my intention to get around the downtime - I didn't realize that was possible, and have no idea if this would accomplish that. I simply couldn't use this because of the downtime, and figured I'd take the break to share it. The "somehow managed to get working" was in reference to my bash script abilities, not that I was using drop.io during the downtime (http://twitter.com/tjlytle/status/14862684433).