Re: Nerd Boy, episode 291

 _.--- Pete Gunter spoke in alt.ascii-art --------._ 
> Hi there,
> Faux, I just wanted to ask you aout your sig? How do you get that to work?
> Is it a winamp plugin or something?

/* This is going to make a lot more sence to *nix users then it will
to windows users.  People who automate everything under the sun should
understand all of it.  I am one of those people and I need a job.  I
will replace people with shell scripts for a small fee.  */

It is a custom script that feeds off another custom script.

First I needed a way to have music started at 8AM every day.
So I wrote one with lots of bells and whistles to handle that.
The rewrite will have lots more bells and whistles and borderline on
the overblown.  But then most of my custom stuff does that.  I think
my autopr0n.sh and its "suit" of apps is a prime example of that.

Then I decided that I wanted to make sigs out of what ever was
playing so I added one line of code that takes all the songs that are
going to play and puts them in a file called ~/.playing.

Then via crontab the following script is called.  It has 3 bugs in it
that I have found so far: 
     1)	    if you catch the first song Rev and Now will be listed as 
	    the same   
     2)	    if you catch the last song Now and Fwd will be listed as
            the same
	    These two could be fixed very easily if I put in an extra
	    if loop but just haven't done it yet.
     3)	    I haven't debugged so that grep quotes the string in
	    ~/.playing its looking for so it chokes if it goes looking
	    for something like "Once_In_A_While_[Ava_Adore_1998].mp3"
	    because [ and ] have special meaning in regexs.  I will
	    fix this in the rewrite.

The whole "suit" of apps that make this happen really needs to be
rewritten but I haven't gotten around to that yet.  But I started. =)

#!/bin/bash
HOME=/home/faux/
sigfile=.signature
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/\
:/home/faux/shell:/usr/games/

unbuff() {
echo $@ | sed 's/.*\(.\{48\}$\)/\1/'
}

#nowplaying.sh is me being very lazy as all it is: "cat ~/.nowplaying"
LISTAGE="$(grep -1 $(/home/faux/shell/nowplaying.sh) .playing |\
 sed -e 's/.*music//' -e 's/.*comedy//' -e \
's/.*instramental//' -e 's/.*punk//' -e 's/.*metal-rock//'    )"

Now_Array[0]=" (Now Playing)     http://asciipr0n.com/fp updated=10/12"
Now_Array[1]="Rev: $(unbuff $(echo "$LISTAGE" | head -1 | tail -1) )"
Now_Array[2]="Now: $(unbuff $(echo "$LISTAGE" | head -2 | tail -1) )"
Now_Array[3]="Fwd: $(unbuff $(echo "$LISTAGE" | head -3 | tail -1) )"
#set -x
ONELINER0="$(/usr/games/fortune /usr/share/games/fortunes/fortun-2liners)"
#fortune is the app that spits out fun things on nix systems
#I made a small fortun mod that has nothing but 2 line 34 byte quotes
#in it to fill up the space I had left over.

ONELINER1="$(echo "$ONELINER0" | head -1)"
ONELINER2="$(echo "$ONELINER0" | tail -1)"
#set +x

echo -e "   ICQ=66618055  : ${Now_Array[0]}" > $sigfile
echo -e " YIM=faux_pseudo : ${Now_Array[1]}" >> $sigfile
echo -e "$ONELINER1: ${Now_Array[2]}" >> $sigfile
echo -e "$ONELINER2: ${Now_Array[3]}" >> $sigfile


--
   ICQ=66618055  :  (Now Playing)     http://asciipr0n.com/fp updated=10/12
 YIM=faux_pseudo : Rev: Four_-_02_-_Once_In_A_While_[Ava_Adore_1998].mp3
RTFM RTFM RTFM   : Now: /smashing_pumkins/perfect_single/02-summer.mp3
  RTFM RTFM      : Fwd: ns/bullet_with_butterfly_wings/02-said_sadly.mp3

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