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tweet from bash a better alternative!
43 years ago
TSo yesterday I spent a good while looking for options that didn’t require me to memorize a huge long string just to post to twitter, and I thought I had found one until I realized that nope, that only works if your in the same bash session and won’t still be there after a reboot or even just a new terminal window.
So trial and error and I have the solution!
in a terminal window go to /usr/local/bin
[codesyntax lang="bash" lines="no"]
|
1 |
cd /usr/local/bin |
[/codesyntax]
then make a file called twitter
[codesyntax lang="bash" lines="no"]
touch twitter
[/codesyntax]
then open it
[codesyntax lang="bash" lines="no"]
nano twitter
[/codesyntax]
and add this command replacing username and password with YOUR twitter account info
[codesyntax lang="bash" lines="no"]
curl –basic –user “username:password” –data-ascii “status=
echo $@|tr ' ' '+'” “http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json”[/codesyntax]
——–EDIT!———
I can’t believe I didn’t tell you how to actually post! It’s simple, in your terminal window, just enter
[codesyntax lang="bash" lines="no"]
twitter “Your message goes between the double quotes @danstinebaugh”
[/codesyntax]
That’s it!
tweet from bash
03 years ago
first open your favorite terminal emulator (I prefer terminator) and enter in this command
[codesyntax lang="bash" lines="no"]
tweet(){ curl -u “$1″ -d status=”$2″ “http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml”; }
[/codesyntax]
then just simply tweet your message using the following format
$ tweet username “Your Message is in quotes”
Really, it’s just that simple!
There’s ton’s more tricks like this over at Commandlinefu.com which is where I picked up this little jem!
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3165/update-twitter-via-curl-as-function
