shorten (1) - Linux Manuals

shorten: CLI program to demonstrate use of WWW::Shorten

Command to display shorten manual in Linux: $ man 1 shorten

NAME

shorten - CLI program to demonstrate use of WWW::Shorten

SYNOPSIS

    # Default shortening service is Metamark
    $ shorten books.perl.org/book/171
    http://xrl.us/dv8

    # Change with an environment variable
    $ SHORTEN_SERVICE=TinyURL shorten books.perl.org/book/171
    http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4

    # Change with command line option
    $ shorten --service=TinyURL books.perl.org/book/171
    http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4

    # Change using config file
    $ cat ~/.shortenrc 
    service = TinyURL
    $ shorten books.perl.org/book/171
    http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4

CONFIGURATION

The service used can be controlled in various ways. The program will use the first of the following values that it finds:

•: The value of the "--service" command line option.
•: The value of the "SHORTEN_SERVICE" environment variable.
•: The value of the "service" option from the configuration file (see below).
•: If none of the above options is found, the program defaults to using Metamark.

CONFIGURATION FILE

As we use the "Config::Auto" module for configuration, shorten's fairly flexible when it comes to format.

Configuration will be found in whichever of the following files comes first.

    shortenconfig
    ~/shortenconfig
    /etc/shortenconfig
    shorten.config
    ~/shorten.config
    /etc/shorten.config
    shortenrc
    ~/shortenrc
    /etc/shortenrc
    .shortenrc
    ~/.shortenrc
    /etc/.shortenrc

Generally, I use the format:

    service = MakeAShorterLink

which is simple and works. "service" is the only configuration keyword at present. Its value should be a correctly capitalized service name as per WWW::Shorten's documentation.

BUGS, REQUESTS, COMMENTS

Please report any requests, suggestions or bugs via the system at <http://rt.cpan.org/>, or email <bug-WWW-Shorten [at] rt.cpan.org>. This makes it much easier for me to track things and thus means your problem is less likely to be neglected.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Dave Cross <dave [at] mag-sol.com>, taking over from Iain Truskett <spoon [at] cpan.org>