Get TinyUrls the easy way

[schober]

Forget the TinyUrl website!

1)Install w3m browser
Use http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/w3m/
Or your favourite Linux repository
For Puppy Linux there is a pet http://tinyurl.com/3p6bf34

2)Copy, paste & make executable & then call it from the command line

#!/bin/bash
#start
echo "Paste long url & enter"
read url
base='tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='
turl="$base$url"
#echo "turl $turl"
tu=$(w3m -dump $turl)
echo "TinyUrl is $tu"
#end

3) Output is

# TU
Paste long url & enter
http://euanmearns.com/
TinyUrl is http://tinyurl.com/r87dnxz

4) Works on PuppyLinux &
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i486-t2-linux-gnu)
It might work in Cygwin or W10

5) So much easier! so much faster!
Why bother with the website?

PS Does this help answer the "Why Linux?" qu?

[schober]

On reflection, I should have said that the website https://tinyurl.com/ converts long urls like
'http://www.stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?s=PRU.L&p=D&yr=5&mn=0&dy=0&i=t40345613568&r=1503767028109'
into short ones like http://tinyurl.com/y7aopggh without truncating them