DPASTE(1)

📦 version 0.4.0, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 DPASTE(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because today we're talking about dpaste — a simple pastebin for light values (max 64KB) using OpenDHT distributed hash table. yes you heard me. distributed. hash. table. it's giving ✨peer-to-peer✨ and I'm obsessed.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dpaste -h

dpaste -v

dpaste [options...]

dpaste -g code [options...]

like. look at that. four whole moods. pick one. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe. by default, dpaste reads its standard input and pastes that file onto OpenDHT. that's it, that's the whole thing, no cap.

but if you wanna fetch a file back? you gotta bring the code that goes with it, and you hand it over with the -g flag. that's your ticket, your little key, your 🎀 code 🎀. no code, no file. periodt.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h — prints some help. that's it, that's the whole job. a lil helper. 🫶
  • -v — shows the version of the program. know what you're running, bestie.
  • -g code, --get code — specifies the code code used to recover the file on the DHT. this is the one that gets your file back. your golden ticket. 🔥
  • --aes-encrypt — use AES scheme for encryption. and the password? automatically saved in the returned code, which looks like "dpaste:XXXXXX". so cute, so convenient, so locked down. 💜
  • --gpg-encrypt — use GPG scheme for encryption. for when you're feeling cryptographic and fancy. 🔐
  • -r recipient, --recipients recipient — specify the list of recipients to use for GPG encryption (--gpg--encrypt). use -r multiple times to specify a list of recipients. yes, stack 'em. multiple recipients? multiple -rs. iconic.
  • -s, --sign — tells wether message should be signed using the user's GPG key. and listen, the key has to be configured through the configuration file ($XDG_CONFIG_DIR/dpaste.conf, keyword: pgp_key_id). so set that up first, okay? don't come crying to me. 😭
  • --no-decrypt — tells dpaste not to decrypt PGP data and rather output it on stdout. raw. unfiltered. straight to stdout. 👑
  • --self-recipient — include self as recipient. "self" refers to the key id configured for signing (see --sign description). and heads up: this only takes effect if option -e is also used. yes, -e. it's right there in the original. I don't make the rules, I just report them. 💀

🌈 RETURN CODE 🌈

  • the program returns 0 on success. 🎉
  • otherwise 1 is returned. 🙈

that's it. binary. no in-between. main character energy only.

🧚 FILES 🧚

  • $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/dpaste.conf — main configuration file where. dpaste will look for this file to recover complementary information.

(yes, "where." — the sentence just. does that. I'm leaving it, it's part of the lore now. 🍓)

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

  • Simon Désaulniers <sim.desaulniers@gmail.com>
  • Adrien Béraud <adrien.beraud@savoirfairelinux.com>

two absolute legends. we stan. 💖

and that's the page, bestie! this one's from the General Commands Manual era, dated 2017-06-26 — vintage, lowkey, still slaps. go paste something (max 64KB tho, don't be greedy 💅✨).

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