Which pastebin service do you use the most & why ?

**linuxyogi** · January 7th, 2021

These days I am using Paste2.org but if I find a better one I am eager to try.
Which pastebin service do you use the most & why ?

**TheFu** · January 7th, 2021

Originally Posted by linuxyogi

These days I am using Paste2.org but if I find a better one I am eager to try.
Which pastebin service do you use the most & why ?

I don't. Generally use wormhole to provide a file to someone else directly
or
just post it on one of my websites
or
just email it.

I think the last pastebin was the ubuntu.com one.
Used to use *******, but that was at least a year or two ago because it had a very easy CLI interface:

Code:

cat $LOG | curl -F '*******=<-' http://*******.us

Update: Never would have thought these forums would censor the name. It isn't a "bad" word, at least in this part of the world.

**linuxyogi** · January 7th, 2021

Originally Posted by TheFu

I don't. Generally use wormhole to provide a file to someone else directly
or
just post it on one of my websites
or
just email it.

I think the last pastebin was the ubuntu.com one.
Used to use *******, but that was at least a year or two ago because it had a very easy CLI interface:

Code:

cat $LOG | curl -F '*******=<-' http://*******.us

Update: Never would have thought these forums would censor the name. It isn't a "bad" word, at least in this part of the world.

Suppose you are using IRC chat to find a solution to your problem & they ask you to provide the output of a particular command how do you send it ?
Isn't posting it to your website a overkill in such a case ?
Definitely cant use email.

**TheFu** · January 7th, 2021

Originally Posted by linuxyogi

Suppose you are using IRC chat to find a solution to your problem & they ask you to provide the output of a particular command how do you send it ?
Isn't posting it to your website a overkill in such a case ?
Definitely cant use email.

paste.ubuntu.com
but posting a txt file to a website takes next to no effort. Using paste.ubuntu.com is harder.
https://blog.jdpfu.com/linuxyogi
It will be deleted in 5 days from now. Used this command or that:

Code:

$ echo "rm linuxyogi "|at now + 5 days

Websites are often just text files. Put some other text file in the directory structure at the correct location and **bam** there's a 1-to-1 URL for that file. It is only webapps that might break that. Most of my websites are simple text files with fancy CSS. Just a few actally are webapps with a dbms. Running a little web server with static files is pretty easy and fairly unhackable. It is the webapps that are hacked all the time.

**linuxyogi** · January 7th, 2021

Originally Posted by TheFu

paste.ubuntu.com
but posting a txt file to a website takes next to no effort. Using paste.ubuntu.com is harder.
https://blog.jdpfu.com/linuxyogi
It will be deleted in 5 days from now.

That is simply awesome.

Thanks for sharing.

**Tadaen_Sylvermane** · January 8th, 2021

paste.ubuntu for damn near everything. just habit. don't have a specific reason.

but posting a txt file to a website takes next to no effort. Using paste.ubuntu.com is harder.

True but then you might get less hits due to people from a Windows background who have lived their whole life learning not to download random stuff because anything can screw you over? Is why I use a paste site personally. Theoretically more exposure. I've been running various Linux's for a few years now, I'm still scared to download random stuff that people post. Even when it is just a .txt file and knowing what I know.