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pastebinit

Have you ever used pastebin websites like pastebin.com to share snippets of code, data or text? Did you know you can publish a file from your computer or a Raspberry Pi to a pastebin site with a single command?

Install pastebinit:

sudo apt install pastebinit

Mac users can install with brew.

Usage:

pastebinit <filename>

pastebinit then returns the URL for your paste:

The default pastebin provider in Raspbian is paste.debian.net and Ubuntu have their own at paste.ubuntu.com, which is the default in Ubuntu.

Update: apparently, Les wrote a Tooling Tuesday post about this in 2017, following a recommendation from me! We’ve come full circle: bigl.es/tuesday-tooling-pastebinit