On 16 June 2012 13:28, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Thuo Wilson <lixton@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a bash scripting question that has really bothered me;
First i want to list files in a directory with a command - no prob Second - i want to get the name of the file - no problem Third i want to read the content of the file - no problem Fourth i want to extract some information , column and rows from the file - no problem
My Idea:
My idea is to receive sms and forward to an email - working file but only one at a time! #script 1 second is whenever a reply is sent from the email address "x" with subject "$CELLPHONE $MESSAGE" the script is called by clone to send the sms to user $cellphone - working file but only one at a time! #script 2
*Problem:* The directory contains multiple files with dynamic names (generated by system) some properties being date,time and cellphone number The problem is i don't know how to read multiple files name, read content to a file for processing at a go and output the results into another file using bash. No 2 - i want the *filename* of the other files....in the same directory and each file to be called one at a time.
take example
cd /tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 16 12:42 a.2012.1242pm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 16 12:42 b.2012.1243pm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 16 12:42 c.2012.1244pm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 16 12:42 d.2012.1245pm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 16 12:42 e.2012.1246pm
bear in mind the files are generated randomly and have no control over that :)- so to speak for question purposes
I have the below script to read one line at a time and move what is read to another folder - not good practice. I would want to retain the file in same folder but my bash script should know that the file is read!
How do i perfect this: This reads a file at a time and sends an email but if multiple are received at a go - all the rest iregardless are moved to the tmp2 folder.
#!/bin/bash cd /tmp for f in "`ls`"; do cat $f | mail -s "$f" lixton (ati) gmail.com mv /tmp/* /tmp2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Replace this line.
mv /tmp/$f /tmp2/
You could perfect that by appending a timestamp to /tmp2/$f so that there is no name clash the next day :-)
Hi Wash, That could only deal with only one issue. Any files that comes later that when the dir files are listed. #!/bin/bash cd /tmp for f in "`ls`"; do cat $f | mail -s "$f" lixton (ati) gmail.com mv /tmp/$f* /tmp2 done Looking at example above... if multiple files are listed, only one file (1st one is read) and the rest "only content is read using "cat" Wilson
done
*Now for reading an email reply file from above:* Well this will send BUT only one at a time and if multiple emails are received at a go - all the others are deleted! How do i perfect this....
#!/bin/bash for i in 30 (corresponds to a linux user email box line 30 where subject is) do awk -v a=$i 'NR==a {print $0}' /var/spool/mail/root > testfile2 cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/root echo `cat /root/testfile2` | /usr/bin/gammu --sendsms TEXT `awk '{print $2}' testfile2`
Use the same idea as above. Appending a timestamp will make files unique.
Well if i want the SMS sent, i must read the conntent. timestamp may not help if i can be able to read all the files and perse the output to diffrent files or even one for sms delivery :)
Would possibly have VIRTUAL users where each has a mailbox qmail format.
Qmail? :-)
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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