A purple-remote powered shell script for setting pidgin/finch status.

kmason · 2010-02-07 23:35:13

As the title says, this is a shell script for setting your status in Pidgin/Finch, using purple-remote.

Simply copy/paste this code into a new file, and set the permissions with chmod +x <filename>.

#!/bin/bash
echo "Status? (Valid Options are available,away,unavailable,invisible, and offline):"
read status
case $status in
"available") purple-remote setstatus?status=available;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
"away") purple-remote setstatus?status=away;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
"unavailable") purple-remote setstatus?status=unavailable;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
"invisible") purple-remote setstatus?status=invisible;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
"offline") purple-remote setstatus?status=offline;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
*) echo "Invalid Status.  Please Try Again.";;
esac

Be nice, as its my first shell script, well, at least my first one that takes user input.

EDIT

Changelog

v0.1: Initial release
v0.1-1: Fixed a small bug where the status message was only able to be one word.

Last edited by kmason (2010-02-08 02:03:08)

ultralytenment · 2010-02-08 00:04:18

Thanks! It works, mostly... is there anyway that you can work around the fact that the script limits your "message" (away, available, etc.) to just one word? If I try setting it to "Watching the Super Bowl", it sets it to Watching and then exits.

kmason · 2010-02-08 00:13:28

Hm. I'll have to look into that, there should be a way of including strings as variables...

ultralytenment · 2010-02-08 00:48:41

Great! You'd think that there would be. At any rate, apart from that, it works flawlessly when it comes to actually setting the general status as available, away, invisible, and so forth.

kmason · 2010-02-08 02:01:28

I simply needed to add quotes around the $message variable. lol

#!/bin/bash
echo "Status? (Valid Options are available,away,unavailable,invisible, and offline):"
read status
case $status in
"available") purple-remote setstatus?status=available;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
"away") purple-remote setstatus?status=away;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
"unavailable") purple-remote setstatus?status=unavailable;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
"invisible") purple-remote setstatus?status=invisible;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
"offline") purple-remote setstatus?status=offline;echo "Message?:";read message;purple-remote setstatus?message="$message";;
*) echo "Invalid Status.  Please Try Again.";;
esac

ultralytenment · 2010-02-08 03:15:00

Works perfectly! Thanks smile

kmason · 2010-02-08 04:01:33

You're welcome. Glad that it works well.

kmason · 2010-02-14 01:04:40

I just made a new version, with options and a gui (using zenity).

I also gave it a name. zen-status.

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#1 2010-02-07 23:35:13

A purple-remote powered shell script for setting pidgin/finch status.

#2 2010-02-08 00:04:18

Re: A purple-remote powered shell script for setting pidgin/finch status.

#3 2010-02-08 00:13:28

Re: A purple-remote powered shell script for setting pidgin/finch status.

#4 2010-02-08 00:48:41

Re: A purple-remote powered shell script for setting pidgin/finch status.

#5 2010-02-08 02:01:28

Re: A purple-remote powered shell script for setting pidgin/finch status.

#6 2010-02-08 03:15:00

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#7 2010-02-08 04:01:33

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