What is ffsend?

Firefox Send was an end-to-end encrypted file sharing service that was discontinued in 2021.

timvisee/send is a community-maintained fork of Mozilla’s Send.

timvisee/ffsend is a command line tool to up- and download files to/from a Send instance.

What does this script do?

Placed in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/, this script will add a button to Nautilus’ context menu, to upload files to your Send instance. After upload, the script will paste the link to your clipboard.

#!/bin/sh
host="https://ffsend.example.com"

files=$(echo "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" | tr '\n' ' ')
files=${files::-2}
filenum=$(echo "$files" | wc -l)

ffsendupload="ffsend upload -q -I --host $host"
copytoclipboard="xclip -selection clipboard"

if [[ $((filenum)) -lt 1 ]]; then
	exit 1
fi

notid=$(notify-send "Uploading file(s)" -p)
$ffsendupload $files | $copytoclipboard
notify-send "Link copied to clipboard" -r $notid 

Make sure to mark the script as executable: sudo chmod +x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ffsend.

To see the new field in the context menu you might have restart nautilus: nautilus -q