#!/bin/sh -e # at_xmessage -- print messages on xwindows at a certain time. # Copyright : http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html # Author : Dan Jacobson -- http://jidanni.org/comp/ # Created On : Summer 2001 # Last Modified On: Wed Mar 25 03:03:56 2009 # Update Count : 83 test -w / && { echo "$0: don't run as root, could have DISPLAY problems" exit 22;} test $# -eq 0 -o "$1" = --help && exec cat<<EOF $0: Usage: $ echo Call Bob Plastowitz now|at_xmessage 10:48 am Shell special characters in input are not interpreted, for safety. EOF cd /tmp #in case $PWD is gone when the at job runs message="`cat`" #env -: smaller at job file and no locale to tangle xmessage fonts env - at "$@" <<EOF echo "$message"| XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0.0 xmessage -file - && exit echo "$0: $message"|wall echo $0 $1: "$message" EOF #perhaps remind(1) already does all of this