bin/fetch_file

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Copyright (c) 2009 Chris Moyer http://coredumped.org
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if __name__ == "__main__":
    from optparse import OptionParser
    usage = """%prog [options] URI
Fetch a URI using the boto library and (by default) pipe contents to STDOUT
The URI can be either an HTTP URL, or "s3://bucket_name/key_name"
"""
    parser = OptionParser(version="0.1", usage=usage)
    parser.add_option("-o", "--out-file",
                      help="File to receive output instead of STDOUT",
                      dest="outfile")

    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    if len(args) < 1:
        parser.print_help()
        exit(1)
    from boto.utils import fetch_file
    f = fetch_file(args[0])
    if options.outfile:
        open(options.outfile, "w").write(f.read())
    else:
        print f.read()