PUT from stdin?

[mjwillson]

So it says: "Unix-friendly input and output. Pipe things in, out, and all around." which I took to mean I could do something like

tar -czv big-directory | s3funnel bucket PUT big-directory.tgz

seemingly not though. Is this possible via some combination of args? might be nice to document it if so...

[hrp]

+1

[shazow]

Don't think s3funnel supports streaming a single file from STDIN right now, but that would be a cool addition.

Normally I'd say it should be tar -cvf somedir | s3funnel bucket PUT - but then there is no destination filename. Perhaps we need a syntax for specifying separate input vs output files (which could also be used in the FILE manifest)?

Maybe something like

s3funnel bucket PUT local_name:remote_name

Then we could have...

tar -cvf somedir | s3funnel bucket PUT :big-directory.tgz

Anyone want to do a PR? :)

For completeness, might be wise to provide some kind of --remote-delim flag which defaults to : but can be overridden to something else in case you want to have :'s in your filename... \t's could be nice for manifest inputs.

[tcwalther]

+1