Random .sigs in UNIX?!?

Can someone tell me how to randomize multiple .signature files on a UNIX 
host box?
Thanks!
Lisa


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In <3gpcqa$dv...@jaxnet.jaxnet.com>  wrote:

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>| Music is the                    Lisa Knappe/Vice Pres. |
>| messenger no one   .oooO        Jacksonville Gay Chorus|
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And another miraculous coincidence :-/

Hendr!K

> Can someone tell me how to randomize multiple .signature files on 
> a UNIX host box?

The way I managed to do this was to put all the sig's into a fortune
file, (look at the fortune help for more info), and create a shell
script that ran fortune on this file, and piped the outout to my
~/.sig file. Once I'd done that, I created a Cron job to run the
script file once every fifteen minutes... 

I hope you managed to follow that lot! A bit of a convulted route I
know, but it seems to work :-)

If you're interrested then I can send the relavent files as a 
template for you to work with.


             Gary Mellor     -      gdm...@cam.ac.uk

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Gary Mellor (gdm...@Garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: > Can someone tell me how to randomize multiple .signature files on 
: > a UNIX host box?

One alternative is to have a series of .sig files in a list (with a
matching pointer file) and have the current .sigfile 'updated' after 
(or before) each invocation of your news-reader.

(script writing required, or knowlegde of awk, perl...whatever)

By the way, this wouldn't be 'random', but it *could* hit every .sig in
turn, which I *think* is better anyway.

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: One alternative is to have a series of .sig files in a list (with a
: matching pointer file) and have the current .sigfile 'updated' after 
: (or before) each invocation of your news-reader.

: (script writing required, or knowlegde of awk, perl...whatever)

: By the way, this wouldn't be 'random', but it *could* hit every .sig in
: turn, which I *think* is better anyway.

what i did was i made a directory called .sig, and put all my sigs in 
there. only problem is it only genertate random sigs in usenet, not in 
e-mail. if anyone knows how to get random e-mail sigs as well, could you 
send me the scripts i need or what ever it takes?? itd be apreciated.
Night....


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: what i did was i made a directory called .sig, and put all my sigs in 
: there. only problem is it only genertate random sigs in usenet, not in 
: e-mail. if anyone knows how to get random e-mail sigs as well, could you 
: send me the scripts i need or what ever it takes?? itd be apreciated.
: Night....


I think the answer to your woes is to write a script that runs every time 
you logon.  Like puting it in your .login file.

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On 4 Feb 1995, Night Man wrote:
> what i did was i made a directory called .sig, and put all my sigs in 
> there. only problem is it only genertate random sigs in usenet, not in 
> e-mail. if anyone knows how to get random e-mail sigs as well, could you 
> send me the scripts i need or what ever it takes?? itd be apreciated.
> Night....
> 
Yeah same here
If anyone knows how to put random sigs from a file into email messages, 
I'd like to know aswell
cheers
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