How to set iChat status from the command line

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I'm trying to sync my Last.FM last played track with my iChat status… right from the command line. I've come this far:

curl -s http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/Da3X/recenttracks.rss |
    grep -m 1 -E -e "         <title>(.*)</title>.*" |
    sed "s/.*<title>//" |
    sed "s/<\/title>//"

which results in the currently or last played track like

The Black Seeds – Cracks In Our Crown

Is there a way to forward this string as the iChat / Messages status now?

Best Answer

Just found it myself... format the output of sed as AppleScript and call osascript...

curl -s http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/Da3X/recenttracks.rss |
    grep -m 1 -E -e "         <title>(.*)</title>.*" |
    sed "s/.*<title>/tell application \"Messages\" to set the status message to \"♬  /" |
    sed "s/<\/title>/\"/" |
    sed "s/\&amp;/\&/" |
    osascript

That's it!

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