gdrive cheat sheet

Aim

• We want to upload file to google drive by command line on ubuntu 18.04 server

Steps

• Install gdrive

• # Install gdrive
  $ wget https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3X9GlR6EmbnWksyTEtCM0VfaFE&export=download
  $ mv uc\?id\=0B3X9GlR6EmbnWksyTEtCM0VfaFE gdrive
  $ chmod +x gdrive
  $ sudo install gdrive /usr/local/bin/gdrive
  

• Connect gdrive to your google drive

• # Connect gdrive with google drive, just use any command, for example
  $ gdrive list
  # Follow the steps suggested by gdrive
  # You can find the token file from
  $ ls ~/.gdrive
  

• Normal use case

• # After that you can upload file to target folder, you can list and see the location
  $ gdrive list
  $ gdrive upload --parent die231 backup.txt
  

Reference

• Github gdrive
• set up
• create folder