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Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2005 16:17:03 -0700
From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: patch auto-mails
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Jonesing isn't quite the word I'd use however I think I like this idea
just fine too...

On 9/7/05, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> If you are jonesing for automatically-generated chatter,
> you can try running this via cron:
>=20
> % cat /cron/$user/cron
> X * * * * yoursys sourcesmail
> %
> (where X is your favorite random number between 0 and 59)
>=20
> % cat $home/bin/rc/sourcesmail
> #!/bin/rc
>=20
> d=3D`{date -n}
> sleep 1
> if(! test -f $home/lib/sourcesmailtime)
>         touch $home/lib/sourcesmailtime
>=20
> 9fs sources
> newer=3D`{
>         ls -rt /n/sources/extra/changes/*/* $home/lib/sourcesmailtime |
>         sed -n '/sourcesmailtime/,$p' | grep -v sourcesmailtime
> }
> if(~ $#newer 0)
>         exit 0
> for(i in $newer)
>         mail -s $i `{cat /dev/user} <$i
> touch -t $d $home/lib/sourcesmailtime
> %
>=20
> Russ
>