Cliff is a CLI-Client for friendpaste.com. You can paste stuff to Friendpaste by piping it to cliff or fetch contents of a existing paste. It's not yet finished but should work fine. Currently only getting existing and creating new snippets is supported. Updates, Diffs, Versioning, etc. will soon follow!

And btw: friendpaste.com is powered by CouchDB :)

gem install cliff

cliff [--help | --list-languages | --refresh]

--help should be pretty self-explanatory. --list-languages prints a list of all available languages for syntax highlighting from friendpaste. --refresh fetches a new list from friendpaste.com and stores it in $HOME/.friendpaste_languages.

cliff [FILE] [LANGUAGE]
cliff [SOME_EXISTING_SNIPPET_ID]

Upload stuff from stdin

echo "Hello world!" | cliff

Upload contents from file

cliff < file.txt
cliff myrubyscript.rb rb

Fetch a paste

cliff SOME_SNIPPET_ID > output.txt

When creating a new snippet, the complete URL is copied to your clipboard for direct usage on IRC and co.

This CLI-Tool is heavily inspired by http://github.com/defunkt/gist.