beech.sh

function beech() {
   len=`echo "$1" | wc -m`
   if [ "$len" -gt "140" ]
   then
      echo "Tweet length is $len, exceeds max. 140 characters"
      return
   fi
   echo -n 'Sending Tweet... '
   # TODO correct parameter for extended regexes => BSD: `sed -E`; GNU: `sed -r`
   /usr/bin/curl -Ss -u $TWITTER_BEECH_USER:$TWITTER_BEECH_PASS -d status="$1" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml | grep 'error' | sed 's/<[^>]+>//g'
   echo ' DONE!'
}