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Date: Wed,  7 Sep 2005 23:33:27 -0400
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] Re: patch auto-mails
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If you are jonesing for automatically-generated chatter,
you can try running this via cron:

% cat /cron/$user/cron
X * * * * yoursys sourcesmail
%=20
(where X is your favorite random number between 0 and 59)

% cat $home/bin/rc/sourcesmail
#!/bin/rc

d=3D`{date -n}
sleep 1
if(! test -f $home/lib/sourcesmailtime)
=09touch $home/lib/sourcesmailtime

9fs sources
newer=3D`{
=09ls -rt /n/sources/extra/changes/*/* $home/lib/sourcesmailtime |
=09sed -n '/sourcesmailtime/,$p' | grep -v sourcesmailtime
}
if(~ $#newer 0)
=09exit 0
for(i in $newer)
=09mail -s $i `{cat /dev/user} <$i
touch -t $d $home/lib/sourcesmailtime
%=20

Russ