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Tiny shell script for use with Textexpander to take a (Twitter) short URL and resolve it to the full URL Add it to Textexpander as a shell script, copy the shortened URL, type your Textexpander command and then the full URL will be pasted in
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Short-URL converter.sh
#!/bin/bash
URL=$(pbpaste)
curl "$URL" --insecure --write-out %{redirect_url}
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John07 commented Dec 29, 2012

If you want it to work for bit.ly URLs too, change line 3 to

curl "$URL" --head --insecure | grep "Location\:" | sed 's/Location\: //g' | tr -d '\n' | tr -d '\r'

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John07 commented Jan 18, 2013

Brett Terpstra has an even more elegant script here: http://brettterpstra.com/2010/08/14/is-your-url-too-short-try-our-system-free/

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