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NAME

ljpost - command line interface to post messages to LiveJournal

SYNOPSIS

ljpost [file]

OPTIONS

ljpost only takes an optional file which holds the contents of the post; if this is not given then the editor in $EDITOR is invoked instead.

DESCRIPTION

ljpost is a simple command line interface to posting entries to LiveJournal. Currently it supports the following features:

 o Setting date of entry
 o Setting subject of entry
 o Setting mood of entry
 o Setting music of entry
 o The user icon associated with the entry
 o If the entry is auto-formated or not
 o Set security levels of the entry; can be public, private,
   friends-only or limited by friends groups
  

When the post has been made the URL where the post can be found. ljpost can pull the LiveJournal username and password from a file - $HOME/.livejournal The format of this file is simple; based on key/value pairs. Blank lines and lines starting with a # are ignored. Otherwise there are two available keys User and Pass. These are separated from their values by = signs. For example:

  ##
  ## Test entry
  ##
  User = test
  Pass = test

It should be noted that if either of the username or password values are not present then the user will be prompted for the values to use.

FILES

$HOME/.livejournal - Holds LiveJournal authentication details

SEE ALSO

LJ::Simple, perl(1), LiveJournal - http://www.livejournal.com/

AUTHOR

Simon Burr <simes@bpfh.net>