New program to exchange a long URL for a shorter URL utilizing the API at tinyurl.com. Reference: /n/sources/patch/applied/tinyurl Date: Sun Dec 12 11:13:58 CET 2010 Signed-off-by: stanley.lieber@gmail.com --- /rc/bin/tinyurl Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +++ /rc/bin/tinyurl Sun Jan 23 05:33:14 2011 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +#!/bin/rc +if(! ~ $#* 1) { + echo usage: tinyurl http://research.swtch.com/2008/02/hideous-name.html >[1=2] + exit usage +} +hget http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url'='$1 +echo --- /sys/man/1/tinyurl Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +++ /sys/man/1/tinyurl Sun Dec 12 11:24:37 2010 @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +.TH TINYURL 1 +.SH NAME +tinyurl \- shrink a URL +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B tinyurl +.I URL +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Exchanges +a long URL for a shorter URL utilizing the API at tinyurl.com. +.SH SOURCE +.B /rc/bin +.SH BUGS +Redesigns of the source website can break this program.