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Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

Bonnie — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:54:25 -0000

Huh, my quotes looked funny around the $1 - I created the text file using the cat command. Fixed the quotes with pico, they look right now, and it works. Thanks.

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

Bonnie — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:47:55 -0000

This looks great. I don't know anything about compiling commands so I tried the curl that comes with OS X. When I try this only the content up to my first space is posted on Twitter. Do you think that's my curl or is there something else you think it might be?

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

Jesse — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:23:59 -0000

Hello,

I like you script, its simple and sweet. I only have to say that its probably not a good idea to advise people to chmod something to 777. This would enable other users (who would have access to your machine or network) to see not only the password which is hard coded in the script, but to change the script and insert something malicious. Perhaps something a bit more conservative like 700 would be a better choice. This value would mean that the owner (you) has read, write and execute permissions on the file, but no one else. I know you probably, and rightfully trust the people on your network, but hey--its the same amount of typing and you get free security :).

Kind Regards,

Jesse

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

crimeboy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:53:13 -0000

to improve that, and use without commas i make it

crimeboy@groselia:~$ cat twi
#!/bin/bash
# requires curl
###########################

######## CONFIG
USER=YOULOGIN
PASS=YOURPASS
URL="http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"
###############
curl -u $USER:$PASS -d status="$*" -s -o /dev/null ${URL}

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

Christopher S. Penn — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:18:56 -0000

Dunno - as a rule, I typically compile major packages I know I'm going to use from source. That's a me oddity :)

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

Murphy Mac — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:32:26 -0000

Does this not work with the curl that ships with Leopard? I left my password out of the command, was prompted for it, but my post didn't appear. I saw the html go by.

Cool. I'll be looking into Chris Brogan's question. I'm definitely interested in seeing Tweets in the Terminal.

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

carlos — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:57:13 -0000

Now, works fine. I don't know what's happened.
Only to add the script works in gnu/linux OS too
Regards

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

carlos — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:58:44 -0000

Hi,
I work with ubuntu 7.10
I've follow the steps but when I type in the terminal:
tw
and ask for my host password I enter my twitter pass, but it says:
Couldn't resolve host
The host pass and the twitter pass are different?
Thanks

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

Andrew Pennebaker — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:10:11 -0000

Thanks! I added the silent option and sent the stdout text to heck:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
curl -u yourusername -d status="$1" -s -o /dev/null http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

Chris Brogan... — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:42:50 -0000

That's for outbound, right? Is there a way to "tail the log" and watch realtime status come IN?

Re: How to Twitter from Terminal on the Mac

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:11:20 -0000

Anyone know if this or something similar works in windows?