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Dummy Bash script that makes it easy to manage chunks of data coming from standard input. A stash is nothing but a container of raw data tagged with a name (i.e. a regular file), this script just makes file management painless.

Install

Just put stash in one of the directories listed in $PATH, for example /usr/local/bin/stash:

sudo wget http://git.io/stash -qO /usr/local/bin/stash && sudo chmod +x $_

Sample usage

Display the synopsis:

stash -h

Write the output of a command to the default stash:

ps ux | stash

Dump the content of the default stash:

stash

Write the output of a command to a custom stash and to standard output:

ls | stash files | wc -l

Append the output of a command to a custom stash:

uptime | stash -a log

List all the available stashes:

stash -l

Drop a list of stashes by name (including the default one):

stash -d files log default

Cleanup everything by removing every stash:

stash -c

Stashes name

A stash name must contain only alphanumeric characters, dashes (but not in the first position) and underscores, when omitted it defaults to default.

Stashes location

If the environment variable STASH_DIRECTORY is not empty then stashes are created underneath, otherwise in ~/.stash/.

This can be used, for example, to share stashes across multiple machines with Dropbox, configure with:

echo 'export STASH_DIRECTORY=~/Dropbox' >> ~/.bashrc