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crouse
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2026 1:49 am    Post subject: Tweet from your bash shell. Reply with quote
Follow me on my twitter account: http://twitter.com/bashscripts

Tweet from your bash shell.
Change USERNAME and PASSWORD of course Wink

Code:

#!/bin/bash                                                                                                                 
# tweet. Crouse's bash tweeter for twitter.                                                                                 
read -p "Enter Your Tweet: " TWEET           
countme()
{
    count=`echo "$TWEET" | wc -m`;
    [[ $count -gt 140 ]] && echo "Tweet is $count characters, the maximum is 140 characters! Your TWEET was NOT sent!" && exit
}
countme
echo "SENDING ...."
curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -d status="$TWEET" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml -o /dev/null
echo "SUCCESS ! Your tweet was tweeted."
exit 0




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g33kb0ard3r
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2026 3:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very cool, very cool.



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VHockey86
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2026 4:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
might be more efficient to just have the tweet as a quoted command line argument, kind of like a SVN commit comment?

Now go write the same thing in Python just for academic reasons :p



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2026 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeah....i probably should huh ? Smile



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2026 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
please use https Wink

otherwise, you might find unwanted tweets lol



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