Skylink V2 CLI Tool

• Usage
• Commands

Usage

# create key file containing public and private key
# optionally pass a seed
#
$ skylinkv2 keys

# create a V2 skylink under the given "data key"
# using the keys file generated by the 'keys' command
$ skylinkv2 create mybackup

# update a V2 skylink for the given "data key" 
# with the contents of the file at given location
$ skylinkv2 update mybackup ./backup.dat
#
# fetch downloads the contents of a V2 skylink and stores it at given path using
# the datakey and the keys file as input
#
$ skylinkv2 fetch mybackup ./backup_downloaded_.dat

# use --help flag to see usage overview
$ skylinkv2 --help [COMMAND]

Commands

Keys

Using the keys command you can generate a random key pair. This key pair will get saved in a keyfile, by default written to the current directory as a text file named 'keys.txt'. All other command parse such a keyfile to get at the public and private key.

The key pair can be seeded by passing in a seed as argument.
The location of the key file is configurable using the keyfile option.

# write key pair to keys.txt
$ skylinkv2 keys

Create

Using the create command you can initialize a V2 Skylink. It will contain a placeholder Skyfile that sipmly contains the data at which it was created. The V2 Skylink is created using a data key, passed as an argument. Note that this argument is optional, if it is not passed a random data key will get generated and printed upon success.

Note that if the entry already exists, meaning that the V2 Skylink was already initialized prior to running this command and holds data, we will only overwrite it with an empty file if the --force flag is passed.

This command uses the keyfile generated by the keys command. The keyfile can be specified, by default it uses the default key file.

The command will output the data key, the V2 skylink, and the URL at which the Skyfile can be found.

# create a v2 skylink
$ skylinkv2 create mybackup

Update

Using the update command you can update the contents of a V2 Skylink. It will upload the contents of the file at given path, and ensure the V2 Skylink will point at the newly uploaded data. Aside from the location we also pass the data key to this command. This data key is the one printed by the create command.

This command uses the keyfile generated by the keys command. The keyfile can be specified, by default it uses the default key file.

# update a v2 skylink
$ skylinkv2 update mybackup ./backup.dat

Fetch

Using the fetch command you can download the contents of a V2 Skylink. It will download the contents of the file with skylink that corresponds to the given datakey.

This command uses the keyfile generated by the keys command. The keyfile can be specified, by default it uses the default key file.

# fetch the contents of a v2 skylink
$ skylinkv2 fetch mybackup ./backup_downloaded_.dat