Share Files Between Devices With Wormhole William
Description
wormhole-william
is the go language implementation of magic-wormhole.
Wormhole itself is a command-line tool that contains commands to send and receive files, directories, and text, securely. this is to send and receive files using easy-to-read wormhole code as the “unlocking key” example of the unlocking key in question:5-boy-farming
.
The wormhole also provides end-to-end encryption, the endpoint is connected to the same 2 endpoints.
why use
wormhole-william
instead ofwormhole
?
because wormhole-william
has several additional features that are not present in the basic wormhole, such as qr code support, built-in script for auto-completion in several shell types, various flag options, and qr code support for mobile phones. ..
Installation
- AUR
sudo pacman -S wormhole-william
- Go tool (requires
go
to be installed)go install github.com/psanford/wormhole-william@latest
Usage
to make typing easier, create an alias for wormhole-william to be
wormhole
.
see the manpage to see how to use it in full.
-
send files
$ wormhole send <path to file>
- send file with qr code
$ wormhole send <path to file> --qr
The qr code makes it easy to enter the wormhole code on the cellphone. and this includes features that are not present in ordinary wormholes.
- send file with qr code
-
receive files
$ wormhole receive <wormhole code from sender>
-
send text
$ wormhole send Text to send: <string>
atau
$ wormhole send --text <string>
- send text with qr code
$ wormhole send --text <string> --qr
- send text with qr code
besides sending files and text the wormhole can also send a directory/folder. the same way with the command to send files. later the sent folder will be automatically compressed by the wormhole with the format
zip
Send And Receive Files on Android
you can also send files to and from android by using wormhole-william
.