bashfiles is a command-line client for interacting with CloudFiles. Its
main goals are to be a single, easy to fetch file that only has minimal
dependencies, namely bash and curl.
Bashfiles works particularly well on machines with limited userspace tools (for example the Dom0 of a Xen host). However, it's featureful enough to be useful anywhere.
Getting bashfiles on to a machine is as easy as using curl or wget.
Curl:
curl bashfiles.org > bashfiles chmod +x bashfiles ./bashfiles -h
Wget:
wget bashfiles.org/bashfiles chmod +x bashfiles ./bashfiles -h
Download an object from CloudFiles:
bashfiles get my-container object1
Upload an object to CloudFiles from stdin:
bashfiles -i - put my-container my-object < input.data
Move object to different container:
bashfiles mv my-container my-object different-container my-object
Remove container with objects in it:
bashfiles -f rmdir my-container
Create temporary links (files available on the CDN that self-destruct after one hour):
bashfiles tmplink my-object
Single file using only bash, curl, and a few other POSIX utilities
Bash-completion against commands, container-names, and object-names
Config-file support
Content-Type detection
Multiple named endpoints with -e:
bashfiles -e my-production-account get contatiner object bashfiles -e my-development-account get contatiner object
... or set default endpoint:
bashfiles endpoint default my-development account
- Large-Object Support (for files over 5 GB)
- Server-side Copy/Move
- ServiceNET support
- Checksum validation
- CDN support
Choose one of these:
bashfiles -b > ~/bash_completion.d/bashfiles.bash_completion bashfiles -b > /etc/bash_completion.d/bashfiles.bash_completion # Works for all shells bashfiles -b > __bfc && source __bfc && rm __bfc # Works in Bash 4.0 but not Bash 3.2 source /dev/stdin <(bashfiles -b)
bashfiles is based in part on two other excellent scripts:
- Mike Barton's cloudfiles.sh
- Chmouel Boudjnah's upcs
- Rick Harris