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How to access Facebook from the command line on Linux

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Jan 8, 2014

If you know what you are doing on Facebook, you can consider a much lightweight alternative Facebook client called fbcmd, a command-line client for Facebook, instead of heavy-weight Facebook web access. Using fbcmd’s command line interface (CLI), you can do pretty much everything you would do on Facebook, but without having to download superfluous dynamic content. This tutorial covers how to access Facebook from the command line on Linux, by using fbcmd CLI.

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