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One of the unique features of ^C is iris, the message base written by calamitous. It's relatively low-traffic, and while I could keep it open in interactive mode and issue the 'f' or 'freshen' command occasionally to check for new messages, I don't want to.
My solution is 2 bash scripts. irischk.sh and irischk-auto.sh
#!/bin/bash # by Hex hexagram23@ctrl-c.club # This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. # To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to: # Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. output=$(iris -s) # Runs 'iris -s' command and stores output. if echo "$output" | grep -q ", 0 unread" then echo "iris has no unread messages." else echo "iris has unread messages." fi
#!/bin/bash # by Hex hexagram23@ctrl-c.club # This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. # To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to: # Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. file_path=~/.irischk-auto if [ -f "$file_path" ] then #semaphore file exists current_time=$(date +%s) file_time=$(stat -c %Y "$file_path") if (( current_time - file_time >= 3600 )) #semaphore file is more than an hour old then irischk touch "$file_path" fi else #semaphore file doesn't exist irischk touch "$file_path" fi
Create each file in your personal bin directory and make sure they're executable. Run irischk-auto and it should perform its first check. In order to have it check every time you're presented with a bash prompt, add it to your PROMPT_COMMAND setting.
Because invoking iris is a little slow and it's unnecessary to really check that often, I use the ~/.irischk-auto semaphore file to make sure it's only checked every 60 minutes. Adjust the 3600 seconds in irischk-auto.sh to your whim.
This software is only lightly tested but it should work. It's possible but unlikely that calamitous will change the output of the 'iris -s' function, but that should be easy to address. Please report any issues to me via hexagram23@ctrl-c.club and I'll try to address them.
Why two scripts? Because I want the ability to check iris manually.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.