I have been working to switch from HTICK to TICKIT and so far it hasn't
been too difficult. One thing I used with HTICK was the ability to do file announcements. I have been searching for documentation on having that
ability with one of the modules in Syncronet. Not finding anything, I came
up with the script below to do just that. Please don't laugh as I am no
where near a programmer. I welcome constructive criticism and suggestions
as to how to make it more streamlined. I am sure combining the text files
as I do here can be done more simply than using cat, or even more simply
using cat, but I haven't found it yet.

(I am running Debian Stretch)


#!/bin/bash
# Script written by Ray Quinn W6RAY February 5, 2022
# Script to create a new files list and announce into selected message
# areas
# Set environment variables
export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl
cd /sbbs/text
# Running the filelist javascript to get the files over the
# past day and putting them into a text file
jsexec filelist -all -hdr -i -ext -pad -new=1 > /sbbs/text/todaysfiles.txt
# Getting the current date and time.
date -R > date.txt
# Combining the files for a new files list for posting.

cat todaysfiles.hdr date.txt todaysfiles.space todaysfiles.txt
todaysfiles.ftr > us99newfiles.txt
(^These two lines are actually one)

# Entering the new files list into message area(s).

smbutil -tAll -f"US 99 File Ticker" -s"New Files at US 99 BBS Today" i/sbbs/text/us99newfiles.txt /sbbs/data/subs/net214214test.shd
(^These two lines are actually one)

etc...
etc...


todaysfiles.hdr & .ftr is the header and footer. date.txt inserts the date. todaysfiles.space just inserts some custom spacing. todaysfiles.txt is the actual output from jsexec filelist.


Thanks



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Re: New Files Announcements w/SBBS
By: Ray Quinn to All on Sat Feb 05 2022 09:13 pm

smbutil -tAll -f"US 99 File Ticker" -s"New Files at US 99 BBS Today" i/sbbs/text/us99newfiles.txt /sbbs/data/subs/net214214test.shd
(^These two lines are actually one)

postmsg.js is the preferred method of adding messages to a message base these days, but the smbutil method should still work.
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postmsg.js is the preferred method of adding messages to a message base these days, but the smbutil method should still work.

I didn't even see that one. Made the change. Thanks.

On a related note: (Probably not really Synchronet specific) Where would I find the proper language to add to the script so as to not create the message should there be no new files listed in the time frame, in this case - 1 day? I don't wish to send out an empty message with just the header, date, and footer.

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73 de Ray Quinn W6RAY
GMRS WRKZ506
Visalia, CA USA DM06ii
When all else fails, ham radio works!

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Re: New Files Announcements w/SBBS
By: Ray Quinn to Digital Man on Sun Feb 06 2022 01:05 pm

On a related note: (Probably not really Synchronet specific) Where would I find the proper language to add to the script so as to not create the message should there be no new files listed in the time frame, in this case - 1 day? I don't wish to send out an empty message with just the header, date, and footer.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/shell-script-to-measure-size-of-a-file/

You probably want to store the file size (using stat or wc) in a script variable and then compare it to 0.
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Hello Digital!

06 Feb 22 16:03, you wrote to me:

Re: New Files Announcements w/SBBS
By: Ray Quinn to Digital Man on Sun Feb 06 2022 01:05 pm

On a related note: (Probably not really Synchronet specific) Where
would I find the proper language to add to the script so as to not
create the message should there be no new files listed in the time
frame, in this case - 1 day? I don't wish to send out an empty
message with just the header, date, and footer.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/shell-script-to-measure-size-of-a-file/

You probably want to store the file size (using stat or wc) in a
script variable and then compare it to 0.

I should have mentioned that I have never really done any programming. A few .bat files over the years, and lately some BASH scripts. I recently watched your Youtube video where you created the email file java script "module". I may want to start looking into doing things similar, provided I have an idea worth scripting.

I say that to lead to this: I followed the link above and was able to figure out how to accomplish my task. I appreciate it more than you know.

Feel free to critique my work. Here is what I came up with:

$SBBSEXEC/jsexec filelist -all -hdr -i -ext -pad -new=1 > $filepath
# Checking for empty file and exiting. We don't want to send out empty messages.
size=$(wc --bytes < $filepath)
echo " $(date +%B-%d-%Y-%T) Today's new files list file is $size Bytes" >> $logfile
if [ $size == 0 ]
then echo " $(date +%B-%d-%Y-%T) No new files today." >> $logfile ; exit
else

then the cat command I posted earlier to post the announcements. Seems to be working.

Again, thanks!

73 de W6RAY Ray Quinn


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