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Why and How to access Facebook from the command line

Please read the notice at the end!!! You may have already noticed that, while I surely do not refuse graphical interfaces and cool, modern Linux desktop environments, I am always looking for ways to perform every computer-related task from the command line. Sometimes it is because I actually need to automate something. In other cases it is just for the fun of it, to discover if it’s possible. This is the case of the trick I am going to explain this week: how to post to one’s Facebook wall, or read it, from a script.