Date: 2024-02-20
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<h3>The Summary</h3>
I built a system years ago that helps me share files. I find it disappointing <br>
that it's 2024, and we as an industry still haven't found a reliable way to <br>
for users to share files with each other. So, I built my own!<br>
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Yes, I can just send a file via email, but I've found it helpful to share <br>
files that don't work well with email: Large files, temporary files, etc. It <br>
also cleans up after me, and I have a helper script to drop files into place.<br>
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<h3>tmp.thekyel.com</h3>
You can see what I am currently sharing <a href='https://tmp.thekyel.com'>here</a>. It's just a set of open <br>
apache dirs that I drop files into.<br>
Each subdirectory is roughly how long files hang around for.<br>
Examples: Every day, I clean out files older than 24 hours in the 'day' directory.<br>
Every hour, I clean out files older than 60 minutes in the 'hour' directory. Etc
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I use a cron to clean it out:<br>
<a href='https://code.thekyel.com/tmp_cleanup.cron'>https://code.thekyel.com/tmp_cleanup.cron</a>
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And I use the below script to drop files into place. I have the script output a<br>
link to the file, and send me an email so that I have it ready to go out. I <br>
also have an option to automatically send the newly created link to my special <br>
someone, as I send her a lot of links and documents |;)<br>
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<a href='https://code.thekyel.com/send.to.tmp.sh'>https://code.thekyel.com/send.to.tmp.sh</a><br>
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I like this setup a lot, and I use it all the time. It's nice to trivialy throw <br>
something online that I need to share, and not have to worry about cleaning <br>
up after myself.