From 71868b444973a27a53b8a4093a01a05cf177b990 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:55:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update bti.1 with new info from xml file --- bti.1 | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/bti.1 b/bti.1 index ea3b887..fbe6e38 100644 --- a/bti.1 +++ b/bti.1 @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ bti \- send a tweet to twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca from the command line .SH "Synopsis" .fam C .HP \w'\fBbti\fR\ 'u -\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] +\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\-\-shrink\-urls\fR] [\fB\-\-debug\fR] [\fB\-\-dry\-run\fR] [\fB\-\-version\fR] [\fB\-\-help\fR] .fam .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Specify the password of your twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca account\&. .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\&. +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\&. .RE .PP \fB\-\-user screenname\fR @@ -217,11 +217,23 @@ If \-\-proxy is not specified but the environment variable \'http_proxy\' is set 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\-\-shrink\-urls\fR +.RS 4 +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\&. +.sp +Currently, only http://2tu\&.us/ is used as a URL shrinking service\&. +.RE +.PP \fB\-\-debug\fR .RS 4 Print a whole bunch of debugging messages to stdout\&. .RE .PP +\fB\-\-dry\-run\fR +.RS 4 +Performs all steps that would normally be done for a given action, but will not connect to the service to post or retrieve data\&. +.RE +.PP \fB\-\-bash\fR .RS 4 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\&. @@ -268,12 +280,12 @@ The twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca account name you wish to use to send this messa The twitter\&.com or identi\&.ca password for the account you wish to use to send this message with\&. .RE .PP -\fBaction\fR +\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\&. +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\&. .RE .PP -\fBscreenname\fR +\fB\-\-user screenname\fR .RS 4 Specify the user you want to see his/her messages while the action is "user"\&. .RE @@ -293,6 +305,11 @@ The http proxy needed to send data out to the Internet\&. 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 +\fBshrink\-urls\fR +.RS 4 +Setting this variable to \'true\' or \'yes\' will enable the URL shrinking feature\&. This is equivalent to using the \-\-shrink\-urls option\&. +.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\&. -- 2.39.5