Category: | E-Mail Programs |
Author/Contact Info | Mike Lewis cajun cajun {at} cajuninc.com |
Description: | Rotate those tired .signature taglines automatically. Put your taglines in the file $siginfile, one tagline per line. Setup a cron job to run the script every few minutes. Now you won't have to manually change your .signature line.
Output looks something like this: --
Backup not found! A)bort, R)etry or P)anic? |
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $debug=0;
my $home='/home/users/somebody';
my $siginfile="$home/sig/sigfile";
my $tearline=" \n";
my $uptime=`uptime`;
my $outfile="$home/\.signature";
open(INFILE,"$siginfile") or die "Can't open $siginfile :$!";
open(OUTFILE,">$outfile") or die "Sorry, but I can't write to $outfile
+ :$!";
my %hash;
while(<INFILE>){
# build a hash with $. as key and $_ as value
$hash{$.}=$_;
}
my $rand=rand($.);
my @body;
push (@body, $tearline);
push (@body, qq( $hash{sprintf("%.0f", ($rand))}));
push (@body, $uptime);
if ($debug){
print @body;
} else {
print OUTFILE @body;
}
close INFILE;
close OUTFILE;
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Re: Tagline Rotator
by vroom (His Eminence) on Feb 09, 2001 at 11:47 UTC | |
by cajun (Chaplain) on Feb 09, 2001 at 12:15 UTC | |
Re: Tagline Rotator
by Daddio (Chaplain) on May 29, 2001 at 07:46 UTC |
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