September 9, 2009 at 11:14GMail - check new messages from the command line
Let's not pull the cat by the tail. Straight to the point
The result will be the number of new letters in your inbox.
Update: the command can be simplified to
The commands used should be familiar to the sophisticated linux user. For the inexperienced, a brief explanation of what the parts of this line do.
curl - here gets the page at the given address. In this case, it is RSS feed
tr -d '\ n' - removes
awk line breaks - “bites” the necessary parts (the awk language is generally special in various kinds of line parsing. Such a replacement for the regular)
wc -l - count the number of lines
And if the command complicate and parse the output a little, then you can get more information: the sender and the subject of the letter.
curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | wc -l The result will be the number of new letters in your inbox.
Update: the command can be simplified to
curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | awk -F '| ' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}'curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | grep -c "" The commands used should be familiar to the sophisticated linux user. For the inexperienced, a brief explanation of what the parts of this line do.
curl - here gets the page at the given address. In this case, it is RSS feed
tr -d '\ n' - removes
awk line breaks - “bites” the necessary parts (the awk language is generally special in various kinds of line parsing. Such a replacement for the regular)
wc -l - count the number of lines
And if the command complicate and parse the output a little, then you can get more information: the sender and the subject of the letter.
curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | perl -pe 's/^(.*)<\/title>.*<name>(.*)<\/name>.*$/$2 - $1/'</code></blockquote><br>
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