No worries, in that case its actually easier than you think (and that I
thought). Don't worry about the quotes or escaping stuff just do the
following:
Macro:
RN /home/user/twitter.sh Super Awesome Show!
Script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "This will give me all the args: "$@ >> /home/user/testarg.log
echo "So will this: "$* >> /home/user/testarg.log
echo "This only the first Arg: "$1 >> /home/user/testarg.log
echo "This should error or do nothing: "$9 >> /home/user/testarg.log
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 30/08/12 12:31, Jay Eames wrote:
Hi Wayne,
Thanks for the answer.
I had originally thought of using a wrapper script, hence why If you
see in my original question I stated that it didn't seem that you can
easily pass arguments - what I should have specified is that this is
due to not being able to use quotes in the Macro entry. The
documentation is a little less than clear on this area. My bad on the
communication!
Cheers,
Jay
On 30 August 2012 12:18, Wayne Merricks
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You're half way there already, I assume you're using a bash
script via cron. You can pass command line arguments to the script:
http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_read_command_line_arguments_in_a_bash_script
E.g.
RN twitter.sh "The Awesome Show"! (you might have to space escape
the arguments e.g. The\ Awesome\ Show instead of speech marks)
Then in the bash script you can reference the arguments by $1, $2,
$3 etc (depending on how many arguments there are).
So assuming to tweet you call tweetme $MYACCOUNT $MESSAGE you'd do:
tweetme $MYACCOUNT $1 (which would be replaced with The Awesome
Show in this example).
Regards,
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 30/08/12 09:24, Jay Eames wrote:
Hi guys,
As a question, has anyone come up with a way of tweeting from a
macro?
What I'm looking at doing is a "now on air" tweet at the change
of each show. I currently do this off of a cron job, which works
but is not optimal. What I would prefer to do is to fire this
from the log, so that if there is a change to the schedule, it
would automatically be picked up from the log rather than having
to update the cron script each time.
I've looked into the RN Macro, but that doesn't easily allow you
to specify the contents of the tweet in the macro from what I can
see.
Jay
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