Reversed tweet display order for better piping

[ghost]

I love twidge for "vanilla" usage on the terminal, but there are a few things I'd like to try that involve piping twidge output. However, the newest-tweets-print-first system breaks a lot of these ideas unless I write some sort of wrapper code to reverse tweet output.

eg., if I simply want to archive my feed, I'd like to be able to run a cron job for "twidge lsrecent -asu >> ~/Docs/MyFeedArchive"
With the current setup, tweet order will get totally borked: tweets get appended to the file in subblocks, with the newer tweets in each sub-block being at the top of the block.

If there were a flag to simply reverse the order of tweet output, a pipe like this would work flawlessly.

Thanks for twidge! :)

[jgoerzen]

You're right - it wouldn't be too terribly hard to do. The API from twitter does not lend itself to this exactly, but a memory buffer could do it. But if you got the entire tweet on a single line, wouldn't tac(1) solve your issue?

[jgoerzen]

You're right - it wouldn't be too terribly hard to do. The API from twitter does not lend itself to this exactly, but a memory buffer could do it. But if you got the entire tweet on a single line, wouldn't tac(1) solve your issue?

[MentalFS]

I'm using tac to pipe tweets into a file myself, but it is only useful when using -las well (or setting -whigh enough to guarantee only one line per tweet).