twitter_ip.sh

#!/bin/bash

T_USER=twitter_username
T_PASS=twitter_password
T_URL=http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

cd $HOME

LAST_IP=`cat .last_ip`
IP=`curl -s -o - http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ip.php`

if [ $LAST_IP != $IP ];
then
        # echo "new ip: $IP"
        curl -s -o /dev/null -u $T_USER:$T_PASS -d status="$IP" $T_URL
        echo "$IP" > .last_ip
else
        # echo "ip unchanged"
fi