{ brad brace } on Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:58:39 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] 12hr shell script |
------------------------------ cut here ------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/perl -w # $Id: get12,v 1.1 1999/02/19 17:03:28 trss Exp trss $ # Get an image by FTP, possibly mangle it about, and place it on the # root window of an X workstation. Use `--help' for brief docs, or # read the code. Intended to be used with Brad Brace's 12hr-ISBN-JPEG # project <http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html>: install it in # your crontab and enjoy. Based on a shell script from Need To Know # <http://www.ntk.net/>, and written by Robin Stephenson <quux@usa.net>. use strict; use Getopt::Long; use URI::URL; use Net::FTP; ## configuration my($help, $verbose, $email, $URL, $image, $mangle); GetOptions("help" => \$help, "verbose" => \$verbose, "email=s" => \$email, "src=s" => \$URL, "dest=s" => \$image, "mangle" => \$mangle); if (defined($help)) { usage(); exit(0); } # defaults if (!defined($verbose)) { $verbose = 0 } else { $verbose = 1 }; if (!defined($email)) { $email = "quux\@usa.net" }; if (!defined($URL)) { $URL = "ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace/12hr.jpeg"; }; if (!defined($image)) { $image = "/tmp/12hr-isbn-jpeg.jpeg" }; if (!defined($mangle)) { $mangle = 0 }; # this is a bit clunky, and really easy to break *shrug* works for me my($DISPLAY) = $ENV{'DISPLAY'} || "unix:0"; my($XMESSAGE) = '/usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage'; my($XV) = '/usr/X11R6/bin/xv'; my($CONVERT) = '/usr/X11R6/bin/convert'; ## main program $URL = new URI::URL $URL; getfile($URL, $image); $mangle and $image = processimage($image); setbackground($image); if ($verbose) { my($date)=`date +"%l:%M %p %A %d %B"`; chomp($date); message($date, "Updated root window from\n$URL"); } exit(0); ## subroutines # Print some basic usage information. sub usage () { print STDERR << "EOF"; get12 [-verbose] [-email="your\@email.here"] [-src="URL of image"] [-dest="/tmp/image.jpeg"] [-mangle] --email your email address: used to log you in to anonymous FTP --src an FTP URL of an image file (see below) --dest where the image file will be stored locally --mangle post-process the image after it arrives (see source) URLs for the 12hr-ISBN-JPEG project are as follows: ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/b/bbrace/12hr.jpeg ftp://ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace/12hr.jpeg ftp://ftp.teleport.com/users/bbrace/12hr.jpeg ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace/12hr.jpeg ftp://ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace/12hr.jpeg EOF ; } # Get the current picture from $URL by FTP and place in $dest. sub getfile ($$) { my($URL, $dest) = @_; if($URL->scheme ne 'ftp') { die("Not an FTP URL: $URL\n"); } my($site) = $URL->netloc; my($file) = $URL->path; my($ftp) = Net::FTP->new("$site"); $ftp->login("ftp", "$email"); $ftp->get($file, $dest) or die("Couldn't get $URL: $!\n"); $ftp->quit(); } # Display a message in an X window (click to dismiss). sub message ($$) { my($title, $message) = @_; # primitive escaping of special characters $title =~ s/\"/\\"/g; $message =~ s/\"/\\"/g; if (-x $XMESSAGE) { # This is a bit ugly: xmessage idea is from Jamie Zawinski's cid hack. my($command) = << "EOF"; /usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage -display $DISPLAY -name "$title" -xrm '*Font: -*-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-190-*-*-*-*-*-*' -xrm '*Foreground: black' -xrm '*Ba ckground: lightgreen' -xrm '*Command.Background: red' -buttons '' -xrm '*Command.horizDist ance: 25' -xrm '*message.borderWidth:0' -xrm '*Translations: #override <BtnDown>: exit(0)' "$message" & EOF ; system($command); } else { warn("xmessage not found in $XMESSAGE\n"); } } # Mangle an image from the $image file in some interesting # NON-DESTRUCTIVE way. Return the filename of the modified image. sub processimage ($) { my($image) = @_; # add a blue tint if (-x $CONVERT) { system("$CONVERT $image -colorize 0/0/40 $image.blue"); return("$image.blue"); } else { warn("no conversion performed\n"); return($image); } } # Set the root window image to the image contained in the $image file. sub setbackground ($) { my($image) = @_; if (-x $XV) { system("$XV -display $DISPLAY -quit -root -rmode 5 -maxpect $image"); } else { warn("xv not found in $XV\n"); } } __ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold