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    # 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

    # Lengthen a URL
    $ shorten -l 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.
• The value of the SHORTEN_SERVICE environment variable.
• The value of the service option from the configuration file (see below).
• 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.

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.

Copyright 2002 - 2010, Magnum Solutions Ltd. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org>

• Chase Whitener capoeirab@cpan.org
• Dave Cross <davecross@cpan.org>

WWW::Shorten