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Holy fuck

I just want to upload some files to Google Drive from the CLI.
How the hell is this so hard?!

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Jonathan Lamothe
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@silverwizard Is there some way you can perhaps mount Google Drive into your filesystem? Then you could just use plain old cp.
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silverwizard
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@Jonathan Lamothe google-drive-ocamlfuse

The only slight issue is that it fails, mounts nothing, with no logs or information, no matter where I attempt to use it.

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silverwizard
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@Kicou The rclone I have access to in packages is sliiiiiiiightly out of date, and in that slight change, Google changed its entire auth scheme
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silverwizard
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@Kicou importantly I'm stuck on AWS linux, and AL2 has out of date rclone and AL2023 wont install fail2ban
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silverwizard
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@Kicou I installed it from packages, will that out of band update?
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silverwizard
silverwizard  

@Kicou nah, the server doesn't live longer than a few hours

but ok, this might make me not claw out my eyes

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DHeadshot's Alt
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I hate to say it, but could you bodge something together with curl?
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silverwizard
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@DHeadshot's Alt @Kicou I got allowed to put the docs in S3, which is good only because AWS interacting with AWS
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