This project provides an easy-to-use command-line file server that helps quickly share files using the http protocol. Receivers only have to open the browser to browse the shared directory and files. It also comes with two wrapper scripts: share and receive. These two scripts invoke the file server and copy the link to the clipboard, making it easier to share your files instantly. To use these two scripts, you must have xclip installed on your system.
hfs is written in python and (in theory) runs on all platforms supported by cpython 2.6 or later. However, it cannot read unicode filenames on Windows. The two wrapper scripts are bash scripts and only run on unix-like systems.
hfs.py [-h] [-p PORT] [-f] [--enable-tar] [--rate-limit RATE_LIMIT]
[--upload-path UPLOAD_PATH] [--upload-rate-limit UPLOAD_RATE_LIMIT]
[file [file ...]]
file can be either a file or a directory.
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p PORT, --port PORT the port to listen on
-f, --follow-link follow symbolic links when listing files; disabled by
default
--enable-tar enable remote user to download mutiple files at once
in a tar archive
--rate-limit RATE_LIMIT
single file download rate limit in KB/s
--upload-path UPLOAD_PATH
--upload-rate-limit UPLOAD_RATE_LIMIT
single file upload rate limit in KB/s
hfs-share <file1> [<file2> [ <file3> ...]]
file can be either a file or a directory.
hfs-receive <directory>
Received files will be saved to directory.
Start the file server on port 8000 and share all jpg files in the directory.
hfs.py -p 8000 *.jpg
Start the file server on port 8000 and share the root folder (please never try this on your computer):
hfs.py -p 8000 /
Start the file server, share hello.txt and copy the link to clipboard.
hfs-share hello.txt
Start the file server, wait for uploads, and copy the link to clipboard. The uploads are saved to home folder (~).
hfs-receive ~