Bash and twitter

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 we create a simple script with this content:

#!/bin/bash
curl --basic --user USERNAME:PASSWORD \
--data status="$*" 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml' -o /dev/null;

Accordingly, USERNAME and PASSWORD are changing to our login and password on Twitter.
Now we throw the script somewhere in / usr / local / bin , for example, under the name tw , we set permissions:

$ sudo chmod 551 /usr/local/bin/tw
$ sudo chmod +s /usr/local/bin/tw
$ sudo chown root /usr/local/bin/tw


(so that everyone could run, and only root can be ruled) - and feel free to use!

$ tw ", ?"