#!/bin/sh
#
# Based on code from
# http://binnyva.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-twitter-part-1-command-line.html
#

username=<your username here>
password='your password here'

echo -n "twit: "
read text

ctext=`echo $text | tr ' ' '+' | sed -e's/"/\\"/g' | sed -e"s/'/\\'/g"`
echo "DEBUG: sending $ctext"
wget --http-user="$username"                  \
     --http-passwd="$password"                \
     --post-data="status=$ctext"              \
     --output-document=/dev/null              \
     --user-agent="CLITwit"                   \
     http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json  \
> /dev/null

#END#