shadyurl.sh -- Don't just shorten your URLs via the command line, also make them suspicious and frightening.

shadyurl.sh

#!/bin/bash
# @author dsc@less.ly

if test "$1"; then
    LONG_URL="$1"
else
    read LONG_URL
fi
SHADY="http://www.shadyurl.com/create.php?myUrl="

function uri () {
    python -c "import urllib; print urllib.quote('$1')"
}

# Look for:
# <div id="output"> ... <a href="$LONG_URL">$LONG_URL</a> ... <a href="http://5z8.info/malicious-cookie_b8z7i_hot-older-goats.mov">
curl -s --url "${SHADY}$(uri "${LONG_URL}")" | \
sed -nE -e "/<div id='output'>/ {s|^.*<a href='${LONG_URL}'>${LONG_URL}</a> <p>is now</p> <a href='([^']+)'.*\$|\\1|g;p;}"

Can you give an example of use?

11 years ago, oh.

probably still works however the website appears to be down