tinyurl bash script

Paul — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:20:01 +0000

Here is a simple bash script I wrote based on [Wesley Tanaka's script](http://wtanaka.com/node/7750), which in turn was based on code from [Firefox TinyUrl Creator](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/126).

It creates a [tinyurl](http://www.tinyurl.com), echos the result, then puts it on the clipboard.



#!/bin/sh

# tinyurl creator – places tinyurl on Mac OS X clipboard

# Usage: ./tinyurl http://www.google.com

# Credits: Based on this script: http://wtanaka.com/node/7750

URL=$(wget -q -O – -U “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8″ –header=”Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1″ –header=”Accept-Language: en” –header=”Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7″ –referer=”http://tinyurl.com/” –header=”Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded” –post-data=”url=$*” http://tinyurl.com/create.php | sed -n ’s/.*\(http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\).*/\1/p’ | uniq)

echo $URL | tr -d “\n” | pbcopy

echo $URL

Upgraded to OS X 10.5.6 and Mail.app keeps crashing / hanging

Paul — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:51:19 +0000

After restarting Mail.app many times I tried disabling all my Mail.app plugins (*simply rename the /Users/yourusername/Library/Mail/Bundles to something else*). After disabling them one by one I figured out it was [GPGMail](GPGMail).

Just throwing this out there in cash anyone else experiences this problem.

**UPDATE**: An updated version of [GPGMail has been released](http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html).

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tinyurl bash script

Upgraded to OS X 10.5.6 and Mail.app keeps crashing / hanging