shorten - CLI program to demonstrate use of WWW::Shorten
# 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
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.
--service
The value of the SHORTEN_SERVICE environment variable.
SHORTEN_SERVICE
The value of the service option from the configuration file (see below).
service
If none of the above options is found, the program defaults to using Metamark.
As we use the Config::Auto module for configuration, shorten's fairly flexible when it comes to format.
Config::Auto
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.
Please report any requests, suggestions or bugs via the system at http://rt.cpan.org/, or email <bug-WWW-Shorten@rt.cpan.org>. This makes it much easier for me to track things and thus means your problem is less likely to be neglected.
Copyright © Magnum Solutions Ltd, 2002 - 2010. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Dave Cross <dave@mag-sol.com>, taking over from Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org>
perl
To install WWW::Shorten, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm WWW::Shorten
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install WWW::Shorten
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.