Re: Random .sigs in UNIX
From Nic Banister <N.S...@durham.ac.uk>
· alt.ascii-art
· 17 Feb 1995 14:17 · View full thread
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On 12 Feb 1995 ss4...@albnyvms.bitnet wrote: > In article <3hj9gi$s4...@news.xmission.com>, robobob@xmission (Friendly Human Person) writes: > >Below is the small perl script I use to randomize my signature. There > >are a few ways to use this, you can either put the command in your .login > >file, in which case you will get a new .sig everytime you log in, or you > >can alias the programs which need it like this: > > alias pine randsig;/usr/local/bin/pine > > alias tin randsig;/usr/local/bin/tin > >which results in a new sig everytime you run pine or tin, you could even > >crontab it, to give you a new sig every few minutes. How this works is > >to copy a random sig from the directory indicated by @files into > >$HOME/.signature when it is run. For us mere mortals who dont know much about perl scripts could you explain it bit more. I would really appreciate this. By the way, do you put all the different sigs in one file? Thanks for the help! _ _ __ (_) ___ Nic Banister ****** 'Give blood.... | '_ \| |/ __| St Aidans College ..play hockey' ****** | | | | | (__ Durham University |_| |_|_|\___|....... ===> http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d3h6k6/ <===
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,31b8711944adb504 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-18 05:07:40 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!nntp0.brunel.ac.uk!strath-cs!nntphost.dur.ac.uk!altair!d3h6k6 From: Nic Banister <N.S...@durham.ac.uk> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Random .sigs in UNIX Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 14:17:40 +0000 Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <Pin...@altair.dur.ac.uk> References: <3hj9gi$s4...@news.xmission.com> <3hlbk5$b9...@rebecca.albany.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.dur.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3hlbk5$b9...@rebecca.albany.edu>
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