Mega from the terminal with MegaCMD

I think I don't need to explain what it is Mega or the late Megaupload (uff what times those ...). Currently there are many of us who use Mega as storage for backups of our system, or well, information of any kind.

Today there are graphical applications for everything, but those of us who always use Linux, out of curiosity or to save time, want to know how to achieve the same with the terminal. An example of this is yowsup, to use WhatsApp through the terminal, which saves us from using Wine and then download WhatsApp Plus free, use WhatsApp with Pidgin. or something similar.

The point is that I plan to use a folder in my Mega account to store server backups, which obviously do not have a graphical interface, so ... mmm ... how can I use a script? bashUpload files to a specific folder on my Mega account? That is the question here.

MegaCMD: Mega from Terminal

Fortunately there is megacmd, an application through which (and with commands) we can upload files to our Mega, download, etc.

Let's proceed to install it:

1. First we must download the source:

Download MegaCMD font

2. Unzip the file megacmd-master.zip which was what we downloaded, a folder called megacmd-master, we are going to open a terminal inside that folder.

3. Now we go on to install it, in the terminal we write the following:

make sudo cp megacmd / usr / local / bin

3.1. Sure, if you use ArchLinux it is as simple as:

yaourt -S megacmd

4. Done, it's already installed.

And how is MegaCMD used?

First we must create a file in which we will put our account information. That is, the application cannot connect to our account without having the access data (user and password), for this we will create the file: $ HOME / .megacmd.json

nano $HOME/.megacmd.json

There we will put something like this:

{"User": "USUARIO_MEGA", "Password": "PASSWORD_DE_USUARIO_MEGA", "DownloadWorkers": 4, "UploadWorkers": 4, "SkipSameSize": true, "Verbose": 1}

Take into account that the user is the registration email, that is, in my case it would be:

{"User": "myusuarioblabla@gmail.com", "Password": "BLABLABLABLABLABLA", "DownloadWorkers": 4, "UploadWorkers": 4, "SkipSameSize": true, "Verbose": 1}

When we have already put the information, we press save ([Ctrl] + [O]) and exit ([Ctrl] + [X])

Ready now we will see the content from our initial folder:

megacmd list mega:/

That tells me that there is a folder called MEGAsync, which is the one I show in the first image.

If I want to see what is inside a folder, the variation of the previous line is simple, almost obvious, as the folder is MEGAsync:

megacmd list mega:/MEGAsync/

For Download a file instead the parameter list that we used before, now we will use get:

megacmd get mega: /MEGAsync/snapshot1.png / home / myuser /

That will download the file instant1.png, located inside the MEGAsync folder to my Home.

Otherwise, and that is desired upload a file then instead of get we use put:

megacmd put archivo.zip mega:/MEGAsync/

For delete a file would be with delete:

megacmd delete mega:/MEGAsync/instantánea1.png

But the thing does not end here ... if you wish create a new directory, so:

megacmd mkdir mega:/Backups

More MegaCMD features?

Yes 😀

You can still do more, such as synchronizing folders as we do with rsync, for that the parameter is used sync, we can also with move move files from one folder to another, here are the options provided by the application:

The end!

I just told elav that this application is very good, to which he replies: «having the desktop client what to use it for«, Right, when you have Mega Sync then MegaCMD loses a bit of sense, but what if we are on a computer without a graphical environment?

I plan to use MegaCMD for backups of a server, which as I said at the beginning, does not have a GUI.

It could also be used to do an infinite number of things through a script, everything depends on what the user and their imagination need.