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        // using curl to upload files, update twitter status

#! /bin/sh
# Update twitter
# curl --basic --user username:password --data status="Having fun with cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
# curl -T myweather.sh ftp://ftp.saraswaticlasses.net/ --user shaileshr21:SomePassword
# upload a file to the server
# View returned HTTP header on a request
# curl -I http://www.google.com/


#BBC Mumbai  weather id
id=1558

    #BBC weather RSS feed address
    feed="http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/${id}.xml"

    #City
    city=lisbon

    #temporary file
    tmpfile="weather${city}.txt"

    #Weather twitter bot
    twitbot=shantanuo:SomePassward

    #Read the RSS feed and filter it
    curl $feed 2>&1 | grep 'title' | tail -n 1 | perl -wlne'm/title>(.*)<\/title/i && print $1' | sed -e "s/°//g" > $tmpfile

    #Read the forecast into a weather variable
    read weather < $tmpfile

    #Twit the weather variable away
    curl --basic --user $twitbot --data status="$weather" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

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• bash
• curl
• script
• shell