s3-bash

Amazon's S3 is an original service. Many people use it - but until now it's needed knowledge of a programming language to use it.

s3-bash is a small collection of BASH scripts to let you use it from an Unix, Linux or Mac OS X command line without needing Perl, Python, Java, .Net, etc...

Using It

Just unpack the tar!

• To get files: use ./s3-get
• To put files: use ./s3-put
• To delete files: use ./s3-delete

All of these programs take -h for help.

Dependencies

If you're using Linux or Cygwin, you will need to have gnu coreutils (textutils as was), curl and OpenSSL installed. These are pretty standard on most modern distributions.

If you're using a Mac, we've only tested this on Mac OX X Tiger.

We've made some changes in 0.01 so that it now works irrespective of your locale and does basic checking for corrupt secret keys.

Notes

• Amazon custom headers are not completely supported yet.
• Temporary files are not properly cleaned up (/tmp/s3-*). These can be deleted by hand.
• The Amazon custom date header is not supported as it is not needed.
• The format of the custom header file is header: value. We do no support repeated headers or long headers folded on to a new line (rarely encountered).

Coooool

(Well, we think it is) The bash code in s3-common-functions implements the HMAC part of HMAC-SHA1 in pure bash...