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Subject: Rotating 'random' signatures.
From: jdavis () CS ! Arizona ! EDU (Jim Davis)
Date: 1994-05-31 17:54:08
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Someone's bound to ask sooner or later, so here's a simple approach to
getting a different signature, chosen at 'random', each time you start
up pine. (Getting a random signature each time you enter pine's
composer is also possible, but more complicated.) This is for a UNIX
system; I tested it on a Sun workstation running Solaris 2.3:
-------------------------snip snip snip--------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh -
pinesig=$HOME/.pinesig # what 'signature-file=' is in your .pinerc
realpine=/usr/local/bin/pine # pathname to the real pine executable
sigfile=$HOME/sigs # pathname to your file of signatures
#
# Write a 'random' signature to signature-file:
#
/bin/nawk 'BEGIN { RS=""}
{ sigs[NR] = $0 }
END { srand(); print sigs[randint(NR)]}
# END { srand(); print "--"; print sigs[randint(NR)]}
function randint(n) { return int(n * rand()) + 1}' <$sigfile >$pinesig
#
# Now run the real pine executable
#
exec $realpine
-------------------------snip snip snip--------------------------------------
Call the script 'pine' and put it somewhere in your $PATH ahead of the
real pine executable. The script uses awk to suck in a file of
signatures; each signature is separated by a blank line, like so:
Jim Davis | "Get the telescope out of the hall closet, Ed."
jdavis@cs.arizona.edu | -- Mrs. Bighead
Jim Davis | "1.1, 1.2, 1.3, let's rock!"
jdavis@cs.arizona.edu | -- Elma 'Cooder' Fingerwood
Jim Davis | "I love making him do that."
jdavis@cs.arizona.edu | -- Clarissa Darling
awk stores the sigs in an array, and then chooses one at 'random' and
writes that to your signature-file. Once that's done, the script
calls the real pine program.
If you want your signature preceded by a "--" line, the way (t)rn
does, then uncomment the second END statement (and comment out the
first).
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