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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:57:29 -0800
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: rotating .signatures?
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* Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> [010321 13:36] wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:39:18AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > I've seen people that have rotating .signatures for email,
> > anyone know how to do this with mutt?
> 
> I've got in my ~/.muttrc:
> 
> 	set signature="~/bin/pick-sig|"
> 
> which is a small C program which picks up a random signature from
> ~/.signatures.

Ah, nice but here's what I'm using:

(it expects a ~/signature_lines file in the format of a fortune
file)

#!/bin/sh

# Copyright (c) Alfred Perlstein
# All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
# are met:
# 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
#    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
# 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
#    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
#    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
# ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
# IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
# ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
# FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
# DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
# OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
# HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
# LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
# OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
# SUCH DAMAGE.

sig=$HOME/.signature
lines=$HOME/signature_lines
dat=${lines}.dat

if [ `ls -t $lines $dat 2> /dev/null | head -1` != $dat ] ; then
	/usr/games/strfile -rs $lines $dat
fi
cat $sig
fortune $lines

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