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Today I rewrote app-text/nopaste with python. It's a simple command line interface to rafb.net/paste. I just don't want to install ruby just for that small script. In addition to that python is a more appropriate language than ruby. ;)

Simple usage:

hawking@localhost ~/python/nopaste $ ./nopaste.py -h
nopaste script for rafb.net/paste
usage : nopaste.py [options]
Options:
    -h,--help        You're looking at it
    -l,--language    Set language ( defaults to 'Plain Text')
    -n,--nick        nickname
    -d,--desc        description
    -v,--verbose     verbose mode
    -c,--nocolor     supress coloring of output
    -x               Nopaste from X selection instead of stdin
                     (using xclip or xcut)

You can specify a http proxy by setting http_proxy environment variable.

hawking@localhost ~/python/nopaste $ export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118
hawking@localhost ~/python/nopaste $ cat test.py | ./nopaste.py -l Python -n
hawking -d "a nice python script" -v
Verbose mode
Language :   Python
Nick     :   hawking
Description :   a nice python script
Setting headers
Encoding parameters
Sending the request
Reading...
http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/rzH00g32.html
hawking@localhost ~/python/nopaste $

You can get the script here.