BASH Cures Cancer

My favorite site to convert rpm’s to tar gzip files appears to have shut down. As such, I wrote my own tool. It has a web interface: Convert a RPM to a tgz and (keeping inline with my thoughts on software) can be used from the command line.

Five usage examples:

$ wget -q "http://bashcurescancer.com/rpm2tgz.ws?url=http://bashcurescancer.com/media/rpm2tgz/telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.rpm"
$ ls -l telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 noland noland 49804 Feb 23 17:09 telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.tgz

$ curl -s -F "rpm=@telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.rpm" \
"http://bashcurescancer.com/rpm2tgz.ws" >telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.tgz.1

$ curl -s -F "url=http://bashcurescancer.com/media/rpm2tgz/telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.rpm" \
 http://bashcurescancer.com/rpm2tgz.ws > telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.tgz.2

$ curl -s "http://bashcurescancer.com/rpm2tgz.ws?url=ttp://bashcurescancer.com/media/rpm2tgz/telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.rpm" \
> telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.tgz.3

$ wget -q -O telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.tgz.4 \
"http://bashcurescancer.com/rpm2tgz.ws?url=http://bashcurescancer.com/media/rpm2tgz/telnet-0.17-39.el5.i386.rpm"

Needless to say, if you abuse this, I will block your ip address from accessing the service. If there is an error the script will either return 404 File Not Found or 500 Internal Server Error and an empty body. As such, you should be able to the -s expression of test, [, and [[ to check the validity of the file.