Short script to upload to Dropbox from the command line

upload_files_to_dropbox.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42120767/upload-file-on-linux-cli-to-dropbox-via-bash-sh
# This is in principle superseded by Dropbox CLI

## OAUTH_DROPBOX is pulled from environment

if [ -z $OAUTH_DROPBOX ] 
then
  echo "No oauth token"
  exit 2
fi

list=$1

[[ -z $list ]] && exit 2

for file in $(cat $list)
do
  
  curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload \
      --header "Authorization: Bearer $OAUTH_DROPBOX" \
      --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/${file#./*}\"} " \
      --header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
      --data-binary @${file#./*}
done