Craig Weston craigweston

How to send an email via mutt in a bash script on a recurring basis with crontab.

This was suprisingly difficult for me, so I'm making this quick guide so I have it handy in the future.

Steps

Set up mutt using this guide
Create your bash script that will be sending emails using mutt.
When creating your bash script, add the following line to your mutt command:

There is a bug in Groovy version up to 2.3.7. HTTPBuilder is not able to automatically parse chunked response to JSON format. If external server returns response with header:

Transfer-Encoding : chunked

Usually applied code:

def http = new HTTPBuilder(url)

def result = http.request(POST, JSON) { req ->

prepend-timestamp

Shell snippet that prepends a nice to a command's output.

For example, here's the (snipped) output of vagrant provision:

Successfully installed bundler-1.3.5  
1 gem installed  
Using rmagick (2.13.2)

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# fresh-chrome
	#
	# Use this script on OS X to launch a new instance of Google Chrome
	# with its own empty cache, cookies, and user configuration.
	#
	# The first time you run this script, it will launch a new Google
	# Chrome instance with a permanent user-data directory, which you can
	# customize below. Perform any initial setup you want to keep on every

	<?php
	/**
	* CodeIgniter
	*
	* An open source application development framework for PHP
	*
	* This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
	*

	require 'sneakers/runner'

	task :environment

	namespace :sneakers do
	desc "Start processing jobs with all workers"
	task :work => :environment do
	silence_warnings do
	Rails.application.eager_load! unless Rails.application.config.eager_load
	end

	.text-xs-left { text-align: left; }
	.text-xs-right { text-align: right; }
	.text-xs-center { text-align: center; }
	.text-xs-justify { text-align: justify; }

	@media (min-width: @screen-sm-min) {
	.text-sm-left { text-align: left; }
	.text-sm-right { text-align: right; }
	.text-sm-center { text-align: center; }
	.text-sm-justify { text-align: justify; }

	# Load DSL and Setup Up Stages
	require 'capistrano/setup'

	# Includes default deployment tasks
	require 'capistrano/deploy'

	# Custom tasks

	require 'capistrano/composer'
	require 'capistrano/npm'

	ACTION
	AD_HOC_CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED
	ALTERNATE_GROUP
	ALTERNATE_MODE
	ALTERNATE_OWNER
	ALWAYS_SEARCH_USER_PATHS
	ALWAYS_USE_SEPARATE_HEADERMAPS
	APPLE_INTERNAL_DEVELOPER_DIR
	APPLE_INTERNAL_DIR
	APPLE_INTERNAL_DOCUMENTATION_DIR

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	use strict;
	use warnings;

	my $body = <<"EOM";
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>title</title>
	</head>