nec

nec - Nextcloud command line client

nec is a command line tool for Nextcloud, primary for sharing files. It's made to be cross-platform, tested on Mac OS, Windows and Linux, on Linux working at least on KDE with kwallet and other libsecret backends.

Installation

Download prebuilt binaries on releases or build with go install github.com/gnojus/nec@latest. Note that CGO (CGO_ENABLED=1) is required to build with keychain support for Mac OS.

The Github releases also feature self-updating capabilities via update command (since v0.0.11). When building from source updates can be enabled using linker flags: -ldflags "-X main.version=<version> -X main.repo=gnojus/nec".

Usage

nec is intended to be zero-configuration tool. This means that it works alongside official Nextcloud desktop client. It parses the existing configuration and operates on the folders of local filesystem, synced with server.

This tool does not upload files, it only shares ones that are synced with the server. Therefore if you want to share a file that is not synced, you may want to move/copy it to a folder that is synchronized and share it from there. The upload will be performed by the desktop client.

Commands

Most nec commands take local path as an argument, but the actually affected file (shared or unshared) is the one on the server, synced to the local one by desktop client.

$ nec --help
Usage: nec <command>

nec is a command line tool for file sharing on Nextcloud. It parses the existing
configuration of the official desktop client and operates on the folders of
local filesystem, while actually sharing the files that are synced with the
server.

Commands:
  share (s)       share a local file
  unshare (us)    unshare a local file
  list (ls)       list shares of local files
  update          update nec using github releases if new version available

Run "nec <command> --help" for more information on a command.

Example

$ ls
api.go  config.go  go.mod  go.sum  LICENSE  list.go  main.go  README.md  share.go  unshare.go
$ nec s README.md
https://cloud.example.com/s/NB8LiLSgqpSmPxW
$ nec share README.md --expire 'in 1 week' --note 'nec readme'
share expires on: 2023-01-13
https://cloud.example.com/s/DHHLgYxjNmJDsCr
$ nec ls README.md
65  https://cloud.example.com/s/NB8LiLSgqpSmPxW
66  https://cloud.example.com/s/DHHLgYxjNmJDsCr  2023-01-13  nec readme
$ nec ls -r .
README.md  65  https://cloud.example.com/s/NB8LiLSgqpSmPxW
README.md  66  https://cloud.example.com/s/DHHLgYxjNmJDsCr  2023-01-13  nec readme
$ nec us --id 65
$ nec ls -r .
README.md  66  https://cloud.example.com/s/DHHLgYxjNmJDsCr  2023-01-13  nec readme

Issues

The tool is in the early stage of developent, but should get the job done. Please report any bugs or suggestions on the Github issue tracker.