Bash and Twitter

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    Developing the already mentioned idea of ​​posting on Twitter from Linux Bash: everything is done elementary and simple.
    Install curl :
    $ sudo apt-get install curl

    Now create a simple script with the following content:
    #!/bin/bash
    curl --basic --user USERNAME:PASSWORD \
    --data status="$*" 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml' -o /dev/null;

    Accordingly, USERNAME and PASSWORD are changed to our username and password on Twitter.
    Now we throw the script somewhere in / usr / local / bin , for example, under the name tw , we set the rights:
    $ sudo chmod 551 /usr/local/bin/tw
    $ sudo chmod +s /usr/local/bin/tw
    $ sudo chown root /usr/local/bin/tw

    (in order to run everything, and only root can be edited) - and we boldly use it!
    $ tw "Проверка, как слышно?"

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