Tuesday, May 12, 2009

How to upload files from terminal

Ompload - the swiss army knife of uploading.
Seriously, ever since I found it, my life got so much easier.
Ompload allows you to upload files with a simple command from terminal. It allows uploading images, which will return you a direct link to view the image(useful for sharing images with friends and posting on forums), and all kinds of files, which returns a link for downloading them.

How to install ompload on Gentoo?
#emerge -av ompload

How to upload files from terminal with ompload?

$ompload filename
(and in a couple of seconds a link to your file is returned)
There is also a firefox add-on for omploader.

Restrictions:
  • Maximum file size is 256MiB
  • There is no restriction of content, but they retain the right to delete it whenever they find it offensive, irritating, lame, wasteful, or whatever.
  • They don't like it when you use their servers to upload pictures for your high traffic websites, especially if you have ads :). Here is a list of websites they don't like you to post your images/files to.
Try it out, you'll love it.

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