Posting a stat from a shell script using curl

You can use curl to send data to StatHat via a shell script. For example, here's a little script that gets the number of files in a directory and sends it to StatHat:

#!/bin/sh

FILECOUNT=`ls /tmp | wc -l`
echo Number of files: $FILECOUNT

curl -d "email=your@email.com&stat=number of files&value=$FILECOUNT" http://api.stathat.com/ez