.SH "Synopsis"
.fam C
.HP \w'\fBbti\fR\ 'u
-\fBbti\fR [\fB\-\-account\ account\fR] [\fB\-\-password\ password\fR] [\fB\-\-host\ HOST_NAME\fR] [\fB\-\-proxy\ PROXY:PORT\fR] [\fB\-\-bash\fR] [\fB\-\-debug\fR] [\fB\-\-version\fR] [\fB\-\-help\fR]
+\fBbti\fR [\fB\-\-account\ account\fR] [\fB\-\-password\ password\fR] [\fB\-\-action\ action\fR] [\fB\-\-user\ screenname\fR] [\fB\-\-host\ HOST_NAME\fR] [\fB\-\-proxy\ PROXY:PORT\fR] [\fB\-\-logfile\ LOGFILE\fR] [\fB\-\-bash\fR] [\fB\-\-debug\fR] [\fB\-\-version\fR] [\fB\-\-help\fR]
.fam
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Specify the password of your twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca account\&.
.RE
.PP
+\fB\-\-action action\fR
+.RS 4
+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 timeline\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+\fB\-\-user screenname\fR
+.RS 4
+Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the action is "user"\&.
+.RE
+.PP
\fB\-\-host HOST_NAME\fR
.RS 4
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\&.
.RS 4
Specify a http proxy value\&. This is not a required option, and only needed by systems that are behind a http proxy\&.
.sp
-If no host is specified, the default is to send to twitter\&.com\&.
+If \-\-proxy is not specified but the environment variable \'http_proxy\' is set the latter will be used\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+\fB\-\-logfile LOGFILE\fR
+.RS 4
+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\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-debug\fR
The twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca password for the account you wish to use to send this message with\&.
.RE
.PP
+\fBaction\fR
+.RS 4
+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 timeline\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+\fBscreenname\fR
+.RS 4
+Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the action is "user"\&.
+.RE
+.PP
\fBhost\fR
.RS 4
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\&.
The http proxy needed to send data out to the Internet\&.
.RE
.PP
+\fBlogfile\fR
+.RS 4
+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\&.
+.RE
+.PP
There is an example config file called
\FCbti\&.example\F[]
in the source tree that shows the structure of the file if you need an example to work off of\&.
+.PP
+Configuration options have the following priority:
+.PP
+.RS 4
+command line option
+.RE
+.PP
+.RS 4
+config file option
+.RE
+.PP
+.RS 4
+environment variables
+.RE
+.PP
+For example, command line options always override any config file option, or any environment variables\&.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
Written by Greg Kroah\-Hartman