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NAME

       bti - send a tweet to twitter.com or identi.ca from the command line

SYNOPSIS

       bti [--account account] [--password password] [--action action]
           [--user screenname] [--host HOST_NAME] [--proxy PROXY:PORT]
           [--logfile LOGFILE] [--config CONFIGFILE] [--page PAGENUMBER]
           [--bash] [--shrink-urls] [--debug] [--dry-run] [--verbose]
           [--version] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       bti sends a tweet message to twitter.com or identi.ca.

OPTIONS

       --account account
           Specify the twitter.com or identi.ca account name.

       --password password
           Specify the password of your twitter.com or identi.ca account.

       --action action
           Specify the action which you want to perform. Valid options are
           "update" to send a message, "friends" to see your friends timeline,
           "public" to track public timeline, "replies" to see replies to your
           messages and "user" to see a specific user's timeline. Default is
           "update".

       --user screenname
           Specify the user whose messages you want to see when the action is
           "user".

       --host HOST_NAME
           Specify the host which you want to send your message to. Valid
           options are "twitter" to send to twitter.com and "identica" to send
           to identi.ca. If you want to send the message to a custom laconi.ca
           installation, you should specify the API URI. For example
           identi.ca's URI is: https://identi.ca/api/statuses

           If no host is specified, the default is to send to twitter.com.

       --proxy PROXY:PORT
           Specify a http proxy value. This is not a required option, and only
           needed by systems that are behind a http proxy.

           If --proxy is not specified but the environment variable
           'http_proxy' is set the latter will be used.

       --logfile LOGFILE
           Specify a logfile for bti to write status messages to. LOGFILE is
           in relation to the user's home directory, not an absolute path to a
           file.

       --config CONFIGFILE
           Specify a config file for bti to read from. By default, bti looks
           in the ~/.bti file for config values. This default location can be
           overridden by setting a specific file with this option.

       --shrink-urls
           Scans the tweet text for valid URL patterns and passes each through
           the supplied bti-shrink-urls script. The script will pass the URL
           to a web service that shrinks the URLs, making it more suitable for
           micro-blogging.

           Currently, only http://2tu.us/ is used as a URL shrinking service.

       --debug
           Print a whole bunch of debugging messages to stdout.

       --page PAGENUMBER
           When the action is to retrieve updates, it usually retrieves only
           one page. If this option is used, the page number can be specified.

       --dry-run
           Performs all steps that would normally be done for a given action,
           but will not connect to the service to post or retrieve data.

       --verbose
           Verbose mode

       --bash
           Add the working directory and a '$' in the tweet message to help
           specify it is coming from a command line. Don't put the working
           directory and the '$' in the tweet message.

           This mode also does not report back any errors that might have
           happened when sending the message, and it sends it in the
           background, returning immediately, allowing the process to continue
           on.

       --version
           Print version number.

       --help
           Print help text.

DESCRIPTION

       bti provides an easy way to send tweet messages direct from the command
       line or any script. It reads the message on standard input and uses the
       account and password settings either from the command line options, or
       from a config file, to send the message out.

       Its primary focus is to allow you to log everything that you type into
       a bash shell, in a crazy, "this is what I'm doing right now!" type of
       way, letting the world follow along with you constant moving between
       directories and refreshing your email queue to see if there's anything
       interesting going on.

       To hook bti up to your bash shell, export the following variable:

       PROMPT_COMMAND='history 1 | sed -e "s/^\s*[0-9]*\s*//" | bti --bash'

       This example assumes that you have the ~/.bti set up with your account
       and password information already in it, otherwise you can specify them
       as an option.

CONFIGURATION

       The account and password can be stored in a configuration file in the
       users home directory in a file named .bti. The structure of this file
       is as follows:

       account
           The twitter.com or identi.ca account name you wish to use to send
           this message with.

       password
           The twitter.com or identi.ca password for the account you wish to
           use to send this message with.

       --action action
           Specify the action which you want to perform. Valid options are
           "update" to send a message, "friends" to see your friends timeline,
           "public" to track public timeline, "replies" to see replies to your
           messages and "user" to see a specific user's timeline.

       --user screenname
           Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the action
           is "user".

       host
           The host you want to use to send the message to. Valid options are
           either "twitter" or "identica" to send to twitter.com or identi.ca
           respectively. If you want to send the message to a custom laconi.ca
           installation, you should specify the API URI. For example
           identi.ca's URI is: https://identi.ca/api/statuses.

       proxy
           The http proxy needed to send data out to the Internet.

       logfile
           The logfile name for bti to write what happened to. This file is
           relative to the user's home directory. If this file is not
           specified here or on the command line, no logging will be written
           to the disk.

       shrink-urls
           Setting this variable to 'true' or 'yes' will enable the URL
           shrinking feature. This is equivalent to using the --shrink-urls
           option.

       verbose
           Setting this variable to 'true' or 'yes' will enable the verbose
           mode.

       There is an example config file in
       /usr/share/doc/bti/examples/bti.example that shows the structure of the
       file.

       Configuration options have the following priority:

           command line option

           config file option

           environment variables

       For example, command line options always override any config file
       option, or any environment variables. Unless a config file is specified
       by the command line. At that point, the new config file is read, and
       any previous options set by a command line option, would be overridden.

AUTHOR

       Written by Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and Amir Mohammad Saied
       <amirsaied@gmail.com>.