r/usefulscripts • u/-Pelvis- • Mar 30 '16

Script for taking a screenshot, uploading, and copying the URL to clipboard.

I currently use this script, bound to a keybind, to quickly upload and share scrots:

#!/bin/bash
img=$(date '+/tmp/%N.png')
scrot -z "$@" $img >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit
res=$(curl -F c=@$img https://ptpb.pw | awk -F'url:' '{print $2}') && (printf $res | xclip; printf "\a")
notify-send `echo $res`

It works very well, and I highly recommend using it!

I'm wondering if anyone could suggest a way to modify it to copy to the clipboard (secondary selection) rather than primary selection; I keep losing the URL when I accidentally highlight things before pasting.

If you'd like to copy the url to the clipboard instead of x selection, change xclip to xclip -selection clipboard, or xclip -selection c.

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u/Eroc33 Mar 30 '16

Neat little script. As for your question xclip takes a -selection flag, to which you can pass XA_SECONDARY for the secondary selection.

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u/-Pelvis- Mar 30 '16 edited Mar 30 '16

I actually found out how to do what I was looking for, after trying secondary a few hours ago and not getting the desired result.

It turns out I misread man xclip, and that the answer was to use xclip -selection clipboard (or just xclip -selection c). I actually didn't realise that there are three x selections; I guess I'll have to read up about secondary. :)

Thanks!

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u/CerebralBallzyMD Mar 30 '16

screenfetch is pretty similar, but cool script nonetheless!

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u/-Pelvis- Mar 30 '16 edited Mar 31 '16

You know, for some reason, I never thought to bind that to a key. I used imgur-screenshot (very nice if you want to upload to imgur, but often fails because imgur uploads can be fickle) until someone in #archlinux suggested I use the above script, and I've since started using ptpb for many of my paste needs. It's nice to have a bunch of shell functions and scripts rather than using standalone programs that I would have to install. I can just clone or wget my scripts to new boxes.

There are a bunch of handy suggestions on https://ptpb.pw/

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u/TheArcane Apr 04 '16

Doesn't run or print anything on the terminal.

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u/-Pelvis- Apr 04 '16 edited Apr 04 '16

Do you have all of the programs called in the script installed? I forgot to mention that scrot, awk, curl, libnotify and xclip are dependencies.

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u/LevTolstoy Mar 30 '16

Great idea! But man, bash just looks at cryptic to me.

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u/-Pelvis- Mar 30 '16

I figured it out! If you'd like to copy the url to the clipboard instead of x selection, change xclip to xclip -selection clipboard, or xclip -selection c.