NULL mag Issue 08 19 Autorun downloaded files

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· 26 Dec 2020

  

 

 
    one feature of all modern browsers, is that while you download a file  
    they let you choose to open the file or just save it. this is very  
    helpful specially when you want to read/listen/view something "on the  
    fly" the moment you download it. 
     
    i have made this request in the past, publicly... i think from here,  
    but i don't suppose that will see it embedded, very soon in any telnet  
    client. so i made my own version... kinda... that resembles this  
    functionality. 
     
    first of all... it's for linux! windows users you can keep reading the  
    other articles in here :p second, you have to install the packages  
    "zenity" and "inotify-tools". if you don't know how... you are also  
    outta here... :p 
     
    third... copy/paste the following script and make it executable. you  
    have to start this script, every time you run your telnet client and  
    let it run in the background. my favorite client is Netrunner, so i  
    made another script to launch both Netrunner and the "watch" script.  
    you can find it in the bottom. 
     
    you must setup your client to download files in the same directory the  
    "watchdir" script does. you can configure the watchdir script with an  
    editor to do that. you can also change other things. 
     
    as you can see the watchdir script detects newly created files in the  
    specified directory. it gets the extension of that file and if it  
    matches one of our categories (ansi, music, text, archive) executes  
    the specified program to view/listen the file. it uses the zenity  
    dialogs to ask you first, if you want to launch the viewer, in case  
    you don't. 
     
    it's a very cool feature to add and at least, personally, it helps me  
    a lot while visiting BBSes. hope you like it and use it a lot. 

 
---- watchdir.sh --------------------------------------------------------     
#!/bin/bash 

musictype="MOD;S3M;IT;XM" 
ansitype="ANS;ASC;DIZ" 
texttype="TXT;DOC" 
archives="ZIP;RAR;7Z;TAR" 
musicplayer="audacious" 
ansiviewer="xansiviewer" 
zipviewer="file-roller" 
textviewer="geany" 
$downloaddir="/home/user/Downloads" 

inotifywait -m $downloaddir -e create -e moved_to |  
  while read filepath action file; do 
    #echo "The file '$file' appeared in directory '$filepath' via '$action'" 
    # do something with the file 
    extension="${file##*.}" 
    filename="${file%.*}" 
    ext="${extension^^}" 
    if grep -q "$ext" <<<"$musictype"; then 
      zenity --question --text "Play file: $file ?" 
      if [ $? = 0 ]; then 
        nohup $musicplayer "$filepath$file" & 
      fi 
    fi 
    if grep -q "$ext" <<<"$ansitype"; then 
      zenity --question --text "View file: $file ?" 
      if [ $? = 0 ]; then 
        nohup $ansiviewer "$filepath$file" & 
      fi 
    fi 
    if grep -q "$ext" <<<"$archives"; then 
      zenity --question --text "View file: $file ?" 
      if [ $? = 0 ]; then 
        nohup $zipviewer "$filepath$file" & 
      fi 
    fi 
    if grep -q "$ext" <<<"$texttype"; then 
      zenity --question --text "View file: $file ?" 
      if [ $? = 0 ]; then 
        nohup $textviewer "$filepath$file" & 
      fi 
    fi 
  done 
------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

---- netrunner.sh ------------------------------------------------------- 
#!/bin/bash 
pcd=$(pwd) 
/home/user/scripts/watch_bbs_dir.sh & 
cd /home/user/bin/netrunner 
./netrunner 
cd "$pcd" 
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