bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users
bash Cookbook teaches shell scripting the way Unix masters practice the craft. It presents a variety of recipes and tricks for all levels of shell programmers so that anyone can become a proficient user of the most common Unix shell -- the bash shell -- and cygwin or other popular Unix emulation packages.
gtcaz on 03/18/07
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curl -u noahsussman:bluecell -d status="Slightly less verbose output." http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml | grep truncated
Ha ha or you can leave off your password and it will prompt you interactively; so it doesn't wind up in your history file (or, say, published on the Internet).
Also add the -s option for absolutely the least output -- just prints the XML tag that indicates whether a tweet was truncated for being over 140 characters, nothing else.
curl -s -u user:password -d status="Slightly less verbose output." http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml | grep truncated