Same ol' cURL Twitter + Spell Check + Length Check

Submitted by ben on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:03
A script that allows you to tweet from the cl, uses aspell to check your spelling, and keeps you under the 140 character limit.
#!/bin/bash

STAT=$(echo $@)
UNAME=twitter
PW=secret

#=- Character Limit
if [ $(echo $STAT|wc -m) -gt 140 ]; then
echo 'Too many characters: '$(echo $STAT|wc -m)
echo 'Keep it under 140'
exit 1
fi
#=- Spell Check
if [ -n "$(echo $STAT|aspell -a list|grep \&)" ]; then
echo "Misspellings:"
echo $STAT|aspell -a list|grep \&
echo 'Post anyway? [Y/n]: '
read RESPONSE
if [ ! "$RESPONSE" = "y" ] && [ ! "$RESPONSE" = "Y" ] && [ ! -z "$RESPONSE" ]; then
   exit 0
fi
fi
#=- Proxy huooi
if [ -z "$http_proxy" ]; then
PROX=''
else
PROXHOST=$(echo $http_proxy|sed 's/^.*@//')
PROXUAP=$(echo $http_proxy|sed 's/@.*$//'|sed 's/^http:\/\///')
PROX="-x $PROXHOST -U $PROXUAP "
fi

curl $PROX-u $UNAME:$PW -d status="$STAT" http://twitter.com