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Share a single file with the cli

See original GitHub issue

User can share a single file with the command line: dat ~/Desktop/my_best_file_ever.zip.

Since it’d be confusing to create a .dat folder, we could use the --temp option here, keeping the database in memory.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:9 (1 by maintainers)

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millettecommented, Aug 20, 2018

dat clone dat://myhash/path/to/myfile.foo

Or even

dat clone dat://myhash+123/path/to/myfile.foo

To fetch a specific version.

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okdistributecommented, Aug 20, 2018

@slrslr you can use the .datdownload file to specify a list of files you want to be synced. You can think of dat as an interface that you would want to use instead of dropbox or git or rsync, which is more focused on directories.

I think using drop-dat is the right approach.

PRs welcome though – for example

dat share /path/to/myfile.foo – which would use an in-memory db for single file metadata (mentioned above by @mafintosh)

Or to download a file out of a dat, the interface could allow specifying which file directly in the url, for example:

dat clone dat://myhash/path/to/myfile.foo