hastebin shell client

hastebin.sh

#!/bin/bash

server='hastebin.com';

usage="$0 pastes into $server
  usage: $0 something
  example: '$0 pie' or 'ps aufx |$0'"

if [ -z $1 ]; then
  str=`cat /dev/stdin`;
else
  str=$1;
fi

if [ -z "$str" ]; then
  echo $usage;
  exit 1;
fi

response=`curl -s -X POST -d "$str" https://$server/documents`
output=`echo $response|cut -d '"' -f 4`

echo https://$server/$output