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  • Sending message to user from bash script

    From deepthaw@1:103/705 to All on Thu Nov 12 18:34:43 2020
    Is it possible to send a text string to a user in a bash script which is getting called as a transfer protocol?

    I'm working on a script to send files via an http:// link, and I have all of it working but telling the user where to download it.

    I'm very new to UNIX/socket programming, would this involve the %i and %h (ip address and socket descriptor) parameters?

    I tried something like: echo -e "Test\n" | netcat $1 $2
    where $1 = %i and $2 = %h and saw nothing. I've tried it with both socket io enabled and disabled for the protocol from scfg.

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to deepthaw on Thu Nov 12 17:42:26 2020
    Re: Sending message to user from bash script
    By: deepthaw to All on Thu Nov 12 2020 06:34 pm

    Is it possible to send a text string to a user in a bash script which is getting called as a transfer protocol?

    I think I covered this in the previous reply.
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  • From deepthaw@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Thu Nov 12 20:25:24 2020
    Re: Sending message to user from bash script
    By: Digital Man to deepthaw on Thu Nov 12 2020 05:42 pm

    I think I covered this in the previous reply.

    Apologies, while testing this I kept crashing (!) my system and thought the original post didn't get sent out. Thank you for the prompt help!

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