len=`echo "$*" | wc -c`
if [ $len -gt  140 ]; then
        echo "Too much"
        exit 1
fi

#!/bin/bash

FILE="$HOME/.twitter"

if [! -f $FILE ]; then
echo "$FILE: does not exists."
echo «Please create this file with following contents:»
echo "[login]"
echo "[pass]"
echo «Where [login] and [pass] is your twitter login/password.»
echo «Make sure you DO NOT have an empty line in the end of file and/or spaces at start/end of the lines or authentication may fail.»
exit 1
elif [! -r $FILE ]; then
echo "$FILE: can not be read"
exit 2
fi

if [ `stat -c %a $FILE` -ne 600 ]; then
echo «WARNING: file chmod is not safe! Will try to fix.»
exec chmod 0600 $FILE
fi

LOGIN=`head -n 1 $FILE` # quick'n'dirty =)
PASSWORD=`tail -n 1 $FILE`

MSG="$*"

MSGLEN=`echo $3 | wc -c`
if [ $MSGLEN -gt 140 ]; then
echo «Too much text»
exit 3
fi

curl --basic --user $LOGIN:$PASSWORD \
--data status=$MSG 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml' -o /dev/null;

curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host ' --data'
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'status=test'
<?xml version=«1.0» encoding=«UTF-8»?>
/statuses/update.xml
This method requires a POST.