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A no-installation version: `htop | nc seashells.io 1337`

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"A no-installation version: `htop | nc seashells.io 1337`"

I'm confused ... you are running the command 'htop' locally (and piping it) so how is that not installed locally ?

Is htop a local, (n)curses based app that you run in a console or is it something else that I am missing ?

You're not installing any additional software onto your machine (like a web server etc)

Perhaps he means a no installation way to show htop on a web-page?

Assuming you have 'htop' installed, you can pipe it's output to seashells.io via `nc` (netcat) and it will give you back a URL where you can see the output.

Indeed, anything can be piped in, i.e.

while true;do date;sleep 1; done | nc seashells.io 1337

FYI, you can make it shorter by using sleep in while's condition, no need for while true. It does delay the first output though.

while sleep 1; do date; done | ...

thanks for the tip, old habits die hard :)

Doesn't the difference lie in whether you want to run the command then sleep, or sleep first and then run the command?

> "It does delay the first output though"

Could also do `while date;do sleep 1;done`

Yes, I was on about the reason for the delay.

If you want short

while :...

that's clever, i've never thought of it, interesting considering how many while true;do ...;sleep X;done loops i've done

> Perhaps he means a no installation way to show htop on a web-page?

Yup, exactly!

Wow, this is awesome! I wish the data I want to send here wasn't so sensitive. How can I run this on-premises?

Seashells isn't currently open-source (the goal was to have a hosted version to make it easy for people to pipe non-sensitive data). In the next version, I'm planning on adding end-to-end password-based encryption.

Also, there are similar things out there that you can self-host, e.g. https://rtail.org/

> Seashells isn't currently open-source (the goal was to have a hosted version to make it easy for people to pipe non-sensitive data). In the next version, I'm planning on adding end-to-end password-based encryption.

Obviously it's your decision, but any particular reason it's not open source? I can't imagine it being commercially viable.

Haven't had time yet. Also, I haven't decided whether I want to extend it and try to turn it into a commercial side project.

Check out gotty https://github.com/yudai/gotty maybe that's what you want.

That's so cool. This is the best link in these comments IMHO.

Woah, seashells is awesome! Especially cool (and useful) how you can `cat` and it shows up as you type.

looks like termbin's clone (termbin.com)

termbin seems to be a classical pastebin. it only gives you a URL after it received all input. seashells gives URL immediately, and streams the terminal in real-time.

With `nc` you can also just start typing and it'll show up on the other end after you hit enter. `nc` works across any two computers on the same network.

To receive messages with nc do

nc -l 3333

To send messages do

nc 192.168.1.XX 3333

with the IP or hostname of the receiving server. No encryption though.

Hi, very useful stuff, thanks!

A tiny nitpick: if you have a little description in the page title it's easier to find it when searching the bookmarks. It's easy to append a bit more information when bookmarking on desktop, but when bookmarking on mobile it's harder, and as usually you don't see the bookmark's details after bookmarking, it can become unfindable.

Good idea! I'll add a description in a bit.

well this must be one of the most useful comments I've ever seen. not sure how to use it yet but it must be useful one day!

agreed, that's lovely for simple things that I can't quite think of right now but know I'll need in the future (and likely forget this exists)

Saw this was cool and was a bit sad that it wasn't yet open source. I decided to make something extremely more simple than this (doesn't require any database management, just a single go app).

The source is available here: https://gist.github.com/antoniomika/2f56cd2d62145d10e10423fb...

Seriously this is pretty hacky, especially since I put it together in less than an hour and took some bad shortcuts. It works well though, and should technically support multiple clients but it can definitely be made better. Open to any questions/comments.

If the terminal window is bigger than your browser this shows junk as the lines start wrapping, does anyone know a workaround?

EDIT: Zooming out does the trick

Whoa, this is awesome. This is the sort of thing I wish I'd come up with.

Just tried that on Android termux and it worked. Cool.

Cannot open /proc/stat for me.

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