Editing a status

taibai edit replaces the text of one of your existing statuses.

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Basic edit

Pass the status URL or ID followed by the new text:

taibai edit 109031952222346765 "Corrected text."
taibai edit https://mastodon.social/@you/109031952222346765 "Corrected text."

The URL of the updated status is printed on success:

Edited: https://mastodon.social/@you/109031952222346765

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Reading from a file

Use --file to supply the replacement text from a file:

taibai edit 109031952222346765 --file revised.txt

--file is mutually exclusive with a positional text argument.

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Reading from stdin

Pass - as the text argument to read from standard input:

echo "New text." | taibai edit 109031952222346765 -

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Content warning

Replace or add a content warning with --cw:

taibai edit 109031952222346765 "Updated body." --cw "New warning"

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Sensitive media

Mark attached media as sensitive with --sensitive:

taibai edit 109031952222346765 "Updated caption." --sensitive

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JSON output

Pass --json to dump the edited status as JSON instead of printing its URL:

taibai edit 109031952222346765 "New text." --json
taibai edit 109031952222346765 "New text." --json | jq '.url'

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Options reference

Option	Short	Default	Description
STATUS_ID	—	—	Status URL or bare numeric ID
TEXT	—	—	Replacement text; use - to read from stdin
--file	—	—	Read replacement text from a file (exclusive with TEXT)
--cw	—	—	Content warning / subject line
--sensitive	—	off	Mark attached media as sensitive
--json	—	off	Dump the edited status as JSON instead of printing its URL
--profile	-p	default	Profile name (TAIBAI_PROFILE env var)