There was a thread some time back regarding dynamic email signatures. A friend of mine told me a way to do it and so I am mentioning the same here. I am just sharing the method here so there is no question embedded in this mail. 1)first of all you would have to make a fifo file [tom@toshiba(21:58:01) (Sun Feb 09)~$ mkfifo .signature [tom@toshiba(21:58:08) (Sun Feb 09)~$ ls -a .signature .signature [tom@toshiba(21:58:19) (Sun Feb 09)~$ ls -al .signature prw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 0 Feb 9 21:58 .signature 2) then you'll have to use the fortunes game which is installed by default in /usr/games/fortune in the following manner....... [tom@toshiba(22:01:37) (Sun Feb 09)~$ /usr/games/fortune | sed -e "s/^/|/g" |Desires and aspirations are but natural, like the life |instinct encased in a seed, seeking to sprout |(curbing greed - 1), Thirukkural notice that the beginning of each line is substitued with a "|" character.. 3) create a prefix and suffix file as follows..... [tom@toshiba(22:03:39) (Sun Feb 09)~/.sig$ cat prefix +--------------------------------------------<tom@symonds.net>------------------------------------+ [tom@toshiba(22:03:49) (Sun Feb 09)~/.sig$ cat suffix +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Now all that needs to be done is to cat the prefix first ....run the fortune cookie and then cat the suffix last.... something like [tom@toshiba(22:05:12) (Sun Feb 09)~/bin$ cat boxedkural.sh #! /bin/bash cat ~/.sig/prefix /usr/games/fortune humorists | sed -e "s/^/|/g" cat ~/.sig/suffix Now if we make this file an executable and run it then the output is something like this..... [tom@toshiba(22:05:16) (Sun Feb 09)~/bin$ ./boxedkural.sh +--------------------------------------------<tom@symonds.net>------------------------------------+ |He asked me if I knew what time it was -- I said yes, but not right now. | -- Steven Wright +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 4)Now you have to direct this to your ~/.signature file......so [tom@toshiba(22:07:46) (Sun Feb 09)~/bin$ ./boxedkural.sh > ~/.signature Depending on your client you can set the signature file to ~/.signature and for every mail you compose a new signature is created...... this is absolutely off topic but I thought I might share it with you as it was discussed on the list some time back. best regards Tom ! -- +--------------------------------------------<tom@symonds.net>------------------------------------+ |I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. | -- Groucho Marx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
