Here's a function prototyping script to show you what was talked about today would look like...
Explained:Code:#!/bin/bash ## MAFoElffen, <mafoelffen@ubuntu.com>, 2021.08.31 ## Paster() # Function. Possible Version 4, 2021.09.08 report=$HOME/system-info.txt startt="$(date '+%F %T %Z (%z)')" function GetPingStatus() { # Takes arg as IP or URL. Returns psuedo boolean $return_status. ping -c 1 $1 > /dev/null pingStatus=$? if [ $pingStatus == 0 ] then return_status="true" else return_status="false" fi } function nl() { echo -e "" } function ProgressActive() { # Provides a spinner to show progress. Called once by Paster. declare -a spinner=("\b|" "\b/" "\b-" "\b\\" "\b-") echo -ne ' ' while test -f "$1" do for spin in "${spinner[@]}" do stdbuf -oL echo -ne $spin sleep 0.2 done done stdbuf -oL echo -en '\b ' } function PasteCurl() { return_url=$(curl -fsSL -X POST \ --url $target \ --output /dev/null \ --write-out "%{url_effective}\n" \ --data-urlencode "content@${PASTEBIN_CONTENT:-$report}" \ --data "poster=${PASTEBIN_POSTER:-`whoami`@`hostname`}" \ --data "syntax=${PASTEBIN_SYNTAX:-text}" \ --data "expiration=${PASTEBIN_EXPIRATION:-week}") check_paste=$? } function PastePastebinit() { return_url=$(pastebinit \ -a "$USER" \ -i "$report" \ -b "$target" \ -t "$sname.txt") check_paste=$? } function PasteWget() { return_url=$(wget --quiet -O- --post-data=$report 'termbin.com:9999' ) check_paste=$? } function PasteNc() { echo -e "This uses a program which sometimes conflicts with " echo -e "Anti-Virus Programs. You should turn that off if you " echo -e "have installed." read -p "Would you like to proceed or skip? (y/N) " ans if [[ ${ans,} =~ ^[Yy]$ ]] then return_url=$(cat $report | nc termbin.com 9999 ) check_paste=$? else echo -e "You skipped uplloading to Pastebin." check_paste=1 fi } function CheckCurl() { [ -e /usr/bin/curl ]; check_curl=$? } function CheckPasterProgs() { if [ -e /usr/bin/curl ] then paste_prog=1; elif [ -e /usr/bin/pastebinit ] paste_prog=2; elif [ -e /usr/bin/wget ] paste_prog=3; elif [ -e /usr/bin/nc ] paste_prog=4; else paste_prog=0; echo -e "Many utilites were not found. Something is wrong."; fi } function DoPaste() { prog_here=$1 case $prog_here in 1) PasteCurl ;; 2) PastePastebinit ;; 3) PasteWget ;; 4) PasteNc ;; *) echo -e "Something went wrong. Error out of range." exit 1 esac } function Paster() { # Provides an upload of report with a progress bar. Called once by Main(). target="https://paste.ubuntu.com" linklog="$HOME/system-info-link.log" echo -e "$blueback Sensitive data is [REMOVED] from the report file $resetvid" CheckPasterProgs ## Eval $paste_prog if [ $paste_prog -ne 0 ] then read -p "Do you want to upload the report file fo '$target'? (y/N) " ans if [[ ${ans,} =~ ^[Yy]$ ]] then GetPingStatus "www.ubuntu.com" if [ "$return_status" == "true" ] then echo "Uploading '$report' to '$target'" echo -e "This may take 1-2 minutes..." nl tput civis keep_spinning=$(mktemp) ProgressActive "$keep_spinning" & pid_progressactive=$! DoPaste $paste_prog if [ $check_paste -eq 0 ] then paste_done=true else paste_done=false fi rm "$keep_spinning" sleep 0.5 tput cnorm if [ $paste_done == 0 ] then echo -e "Uploaded Report: ${startt}:" >> "$linklog" echo -e "$blueback Upload successful $resetvid" nl echo -e "The link to the pastebin is saved in: '$linklog'" nl echo -e "View at: $return_url" | tee -a "$linklog" nl else echo -e "$redback Upload failed $resetvid" echo -e "Upload the file manually: 'copy & paste' to" echo -e "https://paste.ubuntu.com/" nl fi else echo -e "No connection to pastebin.ubuntu.com " | tee -a "$linklog" echo -e "Please copy the file $report to a USB and post " echo -e "from a computer that does have a working connection." echo -e "Upload the file manually: 'copy & paste' to" nl echo -e "https://paste.ubuntu.com/" fi fi else echo -e "$redback The required package was not installed. $resetvid" nl echo -e "Either rerun the script after installing curl, or" echo -e "Upload the file manually: 'copy & paste' to" nl echo -e "https://paste.ubuntu.com/" nl fi } ## MAIN ## Paster
First checks the programs needed to do a Paste to a Pastebin, in order of preference. The first two, are not default installed to all flavors, but will paste to paste.ubuntu.com. The next two are default to all flavor's and will paste to termbin.com.
On the paste, it uses the method related to the preferred program found.
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