SMS script...

[Mark D. Nagel]

Christiaan Ehlers wrote:

> And the sms.sh script is as follow... Deletes one character after the other,
> starting at the back, untill it has 160.
> 
> noclobber=0
> FILE=/home/scripts/msg
> 
> while [ `wc -m $FILE | awk '{print $1}'` -gt 160 ] 
>         do
> 
>         if [ `cat $FILE | sed -n '$p' | wc -m`  = 1 ]; then
>                 cat $FILE | sed '$d' > $FILE
>         else
>                 cat $FILE | sed '$s/.$//' > $FILE
>         fi
> 
>         done
> 
> cat $FILE | mail $1

This process can be done just a bit more efficiently -- try this instead:

#! /bin/sh

FILE=/home/scripts/msg
MAILTO=${1-root}
dd if=$FILE count=1 bs=160 2>/dev/null | mail $MAILTO

There's likely many other similar ways; this is just the first that came
to mind.

Regards,
Mark
-- 
Mark D. Nagel, CCIE #3177 <mnagel at willingminds.com>
Principal Consultant, Willing Minds LLC
tel/fax: 949-623-9853, web: http://www.willingminds.com/



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