Archive - Mar 19, 2008
Paul W. Campbell posted a photo:
Built ten years ago but never put into use due to a crash in the semiconductor market. Soon to be demolished.
Paul W. Campbell posted a photo:
Scimon linked to this article.
There is an Updated version
I've added some checks and split the username and password into a separate, secure, file.
/usr/local/bin/cl-twit
#!/bin/bash
# Source http://www.fsckin.com/2008/03/19/twittering-from-the-command-line/
# 0.0.1 - initial adaptation
# 0.0.2 - protect against errors when using: cl-twit "This isn't going to cause an error."
# The double quotes are needed because of the ' which introduces spaces into $1
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo You have to say SOMETHING!
exit
fi
TWITFILE=~/.twitter
TWITFILESECURE=unknown
if ( stat $TWITFILE | grep '^Access: (..00/' > /dev/null ) ; then
TWITFILESECURE=yes
fi
if [ $TWITFILESECURE != "yes" ]; then
echo The file $TWITFILE should not be world readable
echo Try: chmod go-rwx $TWITFILE
exit
fi
. $TWITFILE
if [ -z $TWITUSER ]; then
echo TWITUSER not set in $TWITFILE
exit
fi
if [ -z $TWITPASS ]; then
echo TWITPASS not set in $TWITFILE
exit
fi
curl --basic --user "$TWITUSER:$TWITPASS" \
--data-ascii "status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`" \
"http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"
You will need to create a file ~/.twitter like the following:
TWITUSER=kemitix
TWITPASS=my-password
Make sure only you can read it:
chmod go-rwx ~/.twitter
This makes it nice and safe to install on a multi-user machine. Assuming you trust root.
The world mourns the loss of one of its greatest and most gentle humans with the death of Arthur C. Clarke. He passed away late last night in his home in Sri Lanka at the ripe old age of 90.
If I had to point to any person or persons in my nearly 60 years of living on planet Earth that influenced me the most (outside of my parents) I would have to narrow it down to just two men, humanist and philosopher Joseph Campbell and the renowned, author, scientist, futurist and humanitarian Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
