man shorlfilter (Commandes) - text filter that turns long URLs into shorls (short URLs)

NAME

shorlfilter - text filter that turns long URLs into shorls (short URLs)

SYNOPSIS

shorlfilter [options] [file ...] 

 Options:
   --help                brief help message
   --man                 full man page
   -v, --version         print version information and exit
   -l N, --length=N      minimum length of URL in characters to shorlify, default 45
   -r N, --retry=N       number of times to retry shorl query before failing

DESCRIPTION

Shorlfilter takes piped input or a filename from the command line and returns the same file with any long URLs turned into shorls.

See http://shorl.com for more information on shorls.

If shorlfilter is unable to get a replacement short URL from shorl.com, the long URL will be left unchanged in the output of the filter.

EXAMPLES

Convert all URLs longer than 60 characters to shorls in file_with_long_urls, save results in file_with_short_urls:

cat file_with_long_urls | shorlfilter -n 60 > file_with_short_urls

Add the following to your .muttrc to have all outgoing messages in the mutt mail user agent be shorlified:

macro compose y <filter-entry>'shorlfilter'\ry<send-message>'

Add the following to your .vimrc to have map F5 to filter the currently open document through shorlfilter:

noremap <F5> :%!shorlfilter<CR>

BUGS

Does not recognize URLs unless they start with http:// or https://. Ideally there would be better heuristics for recognizing long URLs in text even if they don't have the proper protocol string.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Adam Rosi-Kessel. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHOR

Adam Rosi-Kessel, ajkessel@debian.org