The local_ws_fileassistant Moodle web service helps accomplishing the task to push files from your 'private files' repository to a Moodle course.
Since this functionality is missing but would be greatly appreciated by lecturers who want to create their own scripts to push their lecture materials to their courses using the command line, here's a way to make this possible.
See below for an example cURL command. More featureful clients are available in the clients/ subdirectory.
Given a file exists in a user's "Private files", e.g. pdf1.pdf, the user is able to push it to a Moodle course by the CLI command
curl "http://<host>/webservice/rest/server.php?wstoken=<token>&wsfunction=local_ws_fileassistant_create_file_resource&filename=pdf1.pdf&courseid=5§ionnumber=2&displayname=file.pdf"
The token has first to be taken from Dashboard → Preferences → User account → Security keys.
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