I just released a new update of latitude2brightkite.sh – a script that checks-in your Google Latitude position to Brightkite using the Brightkite REST API and the Google Public Location Badge.
The changes are :
20090607 – 0.3 – The working directory i…

coordinates=`wget -qO- “$badge” | perl -0007 -MJSON -ne ‘print to_json(from_json($_, {allow_nonref=>1}), {pretty=>1})’ | grep -A 2 coordinates | grep -v coordinates | sed s/,//`

this is on a box with perl 5.8.8, with JSON installed from cpan.

I’ve tried changing -nE to -ne or -n -e or just -n but they’re all giving errors… any suggestions?

Paul Care: I dont understand will you still need toedit your crontab

On invocation, the script runs only once. So if you want your position to be updated automatically, you need to run the script periodically. The traditional Unix way is to do it with Crontab – but use whatever you want to launch the script !

I could have written it as a daemon with an infinite loop, but because of the short execution time and the long time between updates (unless you wan to hammer Google’s servers) a single update script made more sense to me.